Had a nice lie in today for a change! Lory was still at her music lesson when I eventually got up, so I chilled in bed until my chum knocked on my door to give me her phone, to which Lory told me she was going shopping and would be back later than expected. Chum and I have a paralinguistic communication thing going on; by pointing and smiling or frowning we were able to vaguely understand each other. I had a jam sandwich for breakfast, and I honestly have never appreciated a Jam sandwich that much in my whole life.
When Lory got back, she showed me a program on her computer that plays English films obviously with mandarin subtitles, so I watched the notebook! It was so nice to just sit down and chill out, watching something I actually understand!
Chum had some friends over for lunch, two ladies and two boys, who were about 7 and 10. Lunch was super delicious! I was falling in love with GuiYang's cuisine, although I was pretty horrendous at using chopsticks at this point. It provided everyone with entertainment though!
After lunch we went to Hebin Park, which is surrounded by luscious green trees. Lory told me that they don't have pandas in GuiYang, so sad, I really wanted to see a panda! I really don't know why I expected to see pandas in the wild in China, as I know they are an endangered species and China is absolutely massive!
The best thing about Hebin park is that there are fairground rides there. We went on bumper cars, a cycling monorail and a haunted house. Lory didn't want to go in the haunted house, so I went in with my chum. We properly bonded through that experience. Although, I didn't find it that scary as I had no idea what was being said! We had to sit down around a table and put headphones on. At one point it felt like someone was breathing down your neck. That was horrible, other than that it wasn't too bad!
We then made our way round to the back of the park, to where there are a few decent sized ponds where you could pay for a fishing rod and bait and go fishing. I caught the biggest, ugliest fish, which I named Hagrid much to Lory's amusement. If you catch a fish, then you get to keep to which is pretty cool. It would've been ridiculous for me to keep Hagrid, so I donated him to one of the boys who seemed to have a fascination with him.
We then went to the amusements area of Hebin park, where you had to buy tokens to go on any of the games. We played air hockey, a basketball game and a racing game amongst others. It was good fun!
On our way back, we past a stand that sold all kinds of things, and the boys got some bubbles. These were pretty cool bubbles as it is designed as a whistle, so when you blow bubbles you make a squeaky noise as well! Despite the language barrier between the boys and I, we were still able to play games with each other, which Lory's help with the translation of course.
We then went to a massive department store, which had a huge cinema at the top. We watched the Amazing Spiderman and, to my delight, it was in English with mandarin subtitles. I'd never watched a superhero movie but, surprisingly, I really enjoyed it!
We then went to KFC for dinner, they were going out of their way to get me food as close to English food as they could possibly get, bless. I'm not overly keen on KFC but I daren't say that as they are trying so hard to make me as comfortable as possible.
When we got home, Lory tried to teach me a Chinese card game. At first I thought it was similar to rummy, but then she brought in things like a 'Boom' and I was completely lost! She found it quite hard to explain to me in English, so I decided to show her snap as that's an easy game that you can't get wrong... can you? Well I managed to teach it to her completely wrong. I forgot to say you can't look at your cards! Silly me. It's ok though, in case you were worrying, I totally blagged it by calling it easy snap, and re-taught her snap calling it hard snap! It's worrying that I want to be a teacher.
I really did feel like I bonded well with my chamily today, even if chad was nowhere to be seen!
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