Today we were due to go on a tour of Guiyang and had to be at the CC experiment centre by 10am, so I thought I would get up at 8am to make sure I wouldn't be late. However, when I got up to go to the bathroom, my chum sent me back to bed to go back to sleep for another hour... I was OK with this!
She then got me up at 9am and, as soon as I finished my breakfast, she pointed at the door to go, so I had to rush to get ready in just under a minute! We took the bus to the experiment centre, all the different places I had seen whilst in taxis started to join up in my mind, so I felt like I was getting better at navigating thank goodness! When we reached the bus stop we were getting off, Josh was there with his chum so I had a friendly face to enter CC with!
We got given our sim cards when we reached the fourth floor so it was finally time to put my sexy new phone to use! After everyone else arrived, we went to a traditional chinese building where you can also watch them do arts and crafts, like fan making and painting.
Then we went to get phones for the people who thought the sim cards would work in their english mobile phones but unfortunately didn't. The phone shop we went to was huge, and sold pretty much every mobile you could think of. Pretty much everyone stuck to the cheap basic phones though, as it was coming out of our own precious money!
Afterwards, we had KFC again and then went to a seriously dodgy looking market to try and get some cheap fake items, gotta love shopping in foreign countries! The place was a maze, we were taken around quite a few shops, but all the decent looking bags were well out of our price range. Being in that place made me very glad I opted to bring a bum bag with me. All my money and my phone was safely tucked away!
We then went to the same shopping centre I went to yesterday with my chamily. Obviously I had to brag that they took me to the cinema. Half of us decided to stay behind in a tea shop, they didn't want to go shopping, and the other half of us decided to look around the shops. There were loads of shops, but they were mostly all brands we had never heard of and were about the same price as clothes are in England, so we were reluctant to spend any of our money on new clothes. However, we were more than happy to part with our money when we spied a Dairy Queen that sold Oreo ice cream. Definitely worth the money.
We then saw an advertisement for a 5D simulator. Most of us had been in a 5D simulator before so were particularly interested in what made this so spectacular that another 'D' needed to be added. This was still back in the part of the trip when we were naive and took everything literally. We had to pick a movie off of the sheet, there were a lot of different choices. I can't remember which scene we went for, but i remember that it was so bad, that it was actually quite funny. The thing that we were all sitting on moved around a bit, but other than that it was barely 3D let alone 5D!
To make things even funnier, when we got out of the simulator which, by the way, left us on a cliffhanger despite the fact we had been in there for about 5 minutes, a man tried to sell us a live rooster! This was whilst we were still in the simulator's shop. The shopkeepers then decided to take a photo of us to put on their wall... hopefully we are still there now!
We then went to find everyone back at the tea shop, to which we found them all using the free WiFi. As soon as we realised this, we jumped on the band wagon and immediately started sky ping/ FaceTiming family and friends from back home. We were also introduced to bubble tea, which is basically different flavours of tea with black squidgy ball things in the bottom. I opted for a watermelon flavour and it was genuinely one of the nicest drinks I have ever tasted! Although I was rather unsure about the black balls, I was never sure whether the things we were given to eat were actually edible or not! James decided it would be funny to shoot them across the room at each other with our straws. This seemed absolutely hilarious until we were all told off by the CC English teachers we were with. Oopsie.
We then travelled back to the CC English experiment centre and, when we got there, my chum was the only charent there! I felt so loved! And unbelievably grateful that I didn't have to make my way around GuiYang on my own. We had a quick meeting about the T.I.P training for tomorrow, and we were also told that we will all be sharing one big twelve man apartment with WiFi. At this moment in time this was all we needed to hear. Our hopes were lifted at the thought of the team being reunited again!
Here are some photos of the day, none of them relate to a particular section so I thought I would just bung them all in one place! They are not in chronological order because Blogger is doing my actual head in... they need a better system to add photos into a blog!
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