Two words: Pizza Hut

So yesterday was supposed to be a day filled with crazy adventures at the zoo but that didn’t happen because we practically had a tsunami! It wasn’t one but the rain was coming down so hard and the wind was blowing like crazy! We woke up that morning at 5 am to a car and scooter alarms going off from the wind hitting them every 5 minutes and Gen was coherent enough to realize we had clothes hanging outside to dry since we don’t have a dryer. One pair of Kim’s shorts had fallen and she was pretty upset about that but then when we were coming back from breakfast at the cafeteria we checked the bushes and they were there! It was funny because one of the guards came up to us and was trying to communicate to us that some clothes had been flying all over the place and flown over this huge hill/small mountain right next to our apartments. He was doing the actions since he doesn’t know much English and he was swooping his arms into the air like the clothes going over the mountain and then he said, “Bye, bye” like… “Some clothes went over that mountain and they’re gone, no chance in getting those back!” He made us laugh. Luckily her shorts went straight down instead of flying around so we were able to save them. Later that day the rain calmed down so we ventured to the “5 story mall” some other volunteers had told us about. We found it and went shopping for a little there and then looked around in the shops outside the mall as well. Some people went home after that but me, Kim, Gen, and Emily stayed with Aimee, Sierra, and Emily H. to do a little more looking around and to eat at Pizza Hut! We were really excited about that and oh, were we right to be excited!! It was so much better than Pizza Hut in the states and it was seriously such a nice restaurant! It was probably more like the atmosphere and setting of like Macaroni Grill…but its Pizza Hut haha. And for China, that is an extremely nice restaurant. It only cost us like 4 US dollars a person though and it was so good! We are planning on going back with our whole group for a big celebration, maybe Thanksgiving, someone’s birthday, a made up holiday, or maybe even all of the above! Haha. We couldn’t stop talking about how great it tasted throughout the entire meal. Oh but on the way home afterwards we had to ride the #13 bus back to the fruit stand stop to get on the Kaiyin bus which would take us all the way back. Well, when the 13 bus pulled up to the stop we looked at it like, “Is this the right bus??” It was super tiny and was already packed but the bus driver saw our hesitation and motioned us in. I knew it was the right bus, I just didn’t know how we could fit 7 people into that thing! I honestly don’t know how we did...haha! We were so crammed in there, standing up and barely holding on well enough that when the bus driver would make abrupt stops (which actually happens pretty much all the time in China) we would all be falling over on top of each other. We were laughing so hard. The rest of the bus was pretty quite too because they don’t understand what we’re saying of course which made it even more funny. Sierra was trying to take a picture of us with my camera so she was only holding on with one hand and like I said, the bus driver’s always slammin on the brakes so her foot was sliding into a full on lunge. She is a hilarious girl, I just love her and she was being so funny about it! We had too much fun, I’m just loving it here with the group I’m in!