Just Another Day in Paradise

What’s uppppp!

So it’s Monday afternoon and time for another blog update. This has been a pretty average week, but I still have a few exciting things to report.

So David got his own little apartment here, we’re not really sure why but his old host family wasn’t able to host him anymore. So we have been hanging out there a lot this week.

On Friday we had another addition of AFS movie night! We watched ‘Inglorious Basterds’. The movie was good, but about half way through the movie one of our Chinese friends came up to our classroom and warned us about a fight that happened right outside our school. Evidently there was some sort of gang clash, and they had knives and it actually sounded serious, And one of the girls here had to go home like right after it happened! SO it was time for this Eagle Scout to act. I borrowed some pepper spray, and got out my pocket knife and escorted the lady home. Once again the movie ended late and so we got locked into the school again, when we finally got out there were still some police officers patrolling the area. I ended up sleeping over David’s apartment that night and I am happy to report that all the AFS students returned home safely that night.

On Saturday we went on an adventure to go Laser Tagging. After a 45 Yuen taxi ride, (FYI- by Chinese standards this is an extremely far ride) we were dropped off at the base of some mountains that we didn’t even know existed, in any other country we would have seen them thought our day to day activity, but because of the pollution you honestly cant see them until your right at the bottom. Anyways, we arrived at the laser tagging place and it turned out that some Asian rented the guns out for the weekend. We checked out the arena though and it was actually really cool. We decided to just go another weekend, and instead go climb the mountains. We spent a good amount of time ascending the mountains ruff terrain and climbing up rocks. It was a ton of fun and was actually quite beautiful. Once we reached the top we discovered a stair case that the Chinese were using. We took the stairs down and rented a small bus to take all of us home instead of three taxies. So at the end of the day no laser tagging but no worries because we discovered a mountain range that we never even knew existed!

On Sunday we went shopping downtown and did some famous Chinese shopping. I bought a new battery for my razor cell phone, for 30 Yuen. But besides for eating at McDonalds the highlight of the day was playing with the brand new I-Pad at a Chinese Apple store. This thing was so cool! We also played some Billiards and called it a night.

So now its Monday, and I have to admit we are having a ton of fun in class because we bought a cross bow, and have discovered an endless supply of ammo… Chop sticks!! And lord knows there isn’t a lack of those here. No but really, we have been having fun here and we are looking forward to going to the Expo in 4 Days!!! Ill post again next week on our Shanghai experience so look for that. But until then Peace and Love!