My Adventures in Bengbu China

Teaching English with ILP

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Okay so I know this is late

Okay so I know this is late.
Last week not a lot happened till the weekend. Monday to Thursday we pretty much just hang out at the school or taught. The kids had an day day school week because if the holiday this week. On Friday we have our short teaching day. Friday we went out. Saturday I went out with some of the other foreign teachers to a sports store called decathlon and we went to dinner. After dinner Erica met us and we went to one if the Catholic churches to go to the Easter processional and night mass. It was pretty cool but all in Chinese. We got up early the next morning to all go to Easter mass. It was good. All about Christ saving us by resurrection and how we don't need to fear death etc. We went to an Irish pub after for lunch. They had hamburgers, pizza, Irish foods like bangers and mash, ice cream. It was so good! We had regular sacrament meeting after that. It was really good! Easter is awesome! The church is true!
Monday we had a Friday scheduling of class so we taught early. We did an Easter egg scavenger hunt. It was way fun!
We went to a shopping area that's super cheap by Tianyi. Afterwards we went to our favorite cheap noodle place that's like 5 minutes from the school. Its so so so very good! Tuesday we got up and left at 9 to go to the train station. We took the train to Hangzhou. Hangzhou is so beautiful! Its the home of the west lake. Its breath taking. Its both industrial and it has beautiful nature. We went to Indian food for dinner. It was good. The hostel was way nice! Wednesday we went to this gorgeous park. It had grass and tulips and bridges and rivers and ponds. So gorgeous! We went to a outdoor shopping center and because ours a huge holiday there were more stands with things to buy. It was so crowded and so fun! We had to be back at the hostel at 3:30 to check out and go to the bus station. The bus took us to Huangshan. We got there late and took some taxis to the hostel. It was not as nice as the one in Hangzhou. Its a cheap hostel. Thursday morning we got up and pushed out way onto a taxi bus to go to the actual yellow mountain. We had to take another bus to the entrance. We decided to take a carriage lift up to almost the top because of time. It was so awesome being in the clouds and fog. We hike around got a couple of hours, going to different peaks. They don't have ramps, holds, or trails; its all stairs. Don't worry I took tons of pictures on my camera. We hiked down instead of taking the lift and wow is that a workout! I really don't like stairs now. But we did get to see some monkeys and like always everyone wants our picture and to be in pictures with us. I'm actually starting to like it. Ha ha We got home from the mountain and had dinner. My feet killed! We all took turns taking a shower and went to bed. Friday we slept in and got fruit for breakfast. The of the girls decided to go back to Ningbo instead of going to Hangzhou. We went to a place called ancient street. Its a super old street that's been there since the qing dynasty (960ad). Tons of food and shopping. 6 of us met up with 5 guys that Erica met the day before and we went to dinner and to ktv (private room karaoke). Ktv is awesome, I had done it earlier with or group and it was way fun! We went back to our hostel. Sorry I forgot to take pictures. We got up in the morning and went to the bus station to go to Hangzhou. When we got to Hangzhou it was windy. We took taxis across town to the railway station and got tickets to go home to Ningbo. They only had tickets for 8 and so we split into groups. Some went to the lake, we went to the huge street market, and some went to the museum. I had McDonalds again. The meat and fries are not as greasy as back home. The fries don't have salt either. We met back at the train station at 7. We got onto the train and headed home.

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