We're getting closer to the end of my story, mates...keep reading...
During the week nothing really special happened...I killed flocks of spider, using so much spray that I've also killed my self as well: I killed centipedes, ants, mosquitoes and kicked out a few lizards. What a happy zoo. Internet came and went, making me swear loudly again. You can't imagine how isolating is this place without the Internet. You can think that I'm a posh western woman, but walk a mile in my shoes and you'll see....Internet is my tv, radio, newspaper and telephone. Without it...well, you guessed it, by now. It seems to be back at the moment, so fingers crossed.
Wednesday i actually went down to the city centre and I found out that tianmen has a city centre. That was a bit of a a discovery, something to tell my grandchildren.Shopping centres, a bank (I've finally managed to change my money, thanks god) agency (bought ticket to Shanghai) and tea room. Well, more of a tea corner...
But let me digress (again) and complain (yes, again). Chinese are rude. I know British are addicted to queuing, Italians ignore queue but Chinese just don't get the point. At the bank and agency alike, we were trying to do something while people were simply squeezing in front of us handing money, shouting questions, giving pomegranates (oh yes, to the cashier) leaving me in complete shock. Song was alright with that. I couldn't bear it, they were lucky I didn't have an axe on my (I usually do, but I couldn't fit it in my bag). They are seriously testing my patience. To not talk about the mosquito that's eating me alive in this very moment...
But anyway, thanks to Buddha I survived this test and probably gained Nirvana. We ate along the streets, while I was trying to ignore the smell and just concentrate on the flavour..and it was incredibly good!
Oh yeah, I got the ticket to Shanghai. This time I will have to travel on my own, but hopefully I'll find some more foreigners there (in Wuhan we saw 3, not including us! Exciting!) so I can ask something if I get lost. But I won't! Only 25 million people in there, why should I? ah ah. I'm looking forward to it, even because I need to buy some English books...I'll never have enough. And after Shanghai I'll fly to Nanchang (Translated means Smiling Capital of the Full-of-Happy-Foreigners province) where Stevie lives. Can't wait. Poor woman...she will have to listen to me moaning again and again. Ready...steady...worship!
Yesterday night I went out to the Chinese patio to read a book, and as soon as I sat on it I heard a voice "Hallooo" so i turned around and I saw a middle aged man waving at me. Oh...hallo! He told me that he's an English teacher but he can't speak or understand English. Good way to start a conversation, I'd say. He asked me how old I am and if I'm married, obviously. Very happy when he found out that I'm not. But he is, he sadly told me. Very nice guy, he wants to practice English with me. This morning I went down for breakfast and he brought me some stuff to eat. But I don't think i will go again, breakfast is not worth it...pity.
Ok, last gossip and then I leave you.
Today, after a very normal lesson, as soon as the bell rang, all the students surrounded me with their books, asking me to write my name on it. They've almost killed me, but that is what you have to stand to, when you are a celebrity. How exciting.
Oh, you know? Here they don't have RRRING RRRRRING as a bell at school. They have piano music. How cool is that??
My back aches, so I think I will have to leave you now and go to watch my favourite Chinese soap opera....Phantom of the Fog City, or something like that. All in Chinese, obviously, but quiet enjoyable.
Now I go. Back soon with more exciting (...) adventures!
Good night
Ellie
Fun fact of the day: at the canteen they don't do the washing up. Bowls are collected, rinsed and reused. My antibodies are as big as a bull.
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