Oh vacations...

We haven’t had school the past two days with it being the weekend so we’ve had a relaxing but fun time around Zhongshan. We were supposed to be going to SanYa this weekend, which is a beach supposedly like China’s Hawaii 15 hours away from us, but there were not any available transportation options for us so we decided we’d make the best out of staying here for one of our vacations! We’re planning on going to a close beach tomorrow and maybe a zoo Monday or Tuesday but we’ll see. Yesterday we went to Walking Street where I found some cute new shoes and 3 new shirts with the total price of…drum roll please...12 U.S. dollars! Haha but seriously, shopping here is AWEsome!! Today we went and got massages at this hair salon just around the corner from where we live and it was amazing. They washed our hair which was like a 15 minute process of massaging and all that goodness and then got a full on massage and our hair blow dried straight for less than 3 dollars! That might have to become a monthly event…or maybe more wink, wink. The rest of the day was filled with trying out the Chinese versions of pastries, which most of them were really good, and trying to get good things we saw Chinese people order but we didn’t know where it was on the menu. One of us tried to ask them where it was on the menu, ordered it, and it was a drink instead of this ice cream stuff…totally wrong thing. The funny thing is that most of the menu had English on it too but obviously that treat was not on the English menu! I didn’t really care cuz I wasn’t going to get one anyways but it was pretty entertaining to watch. Other than that we just hung out and played some night games on the school grounds until we got kicked out haha…woops! No worries, the guards weren’t mad at all, that’s just their job and we didn’t know it was time to leave.