Dragon Boat holiday this coming Wednesday. This is when they eat sticky rice wrapped in leaves. With the holiday, they move business/school days to the weekend to get a 3 day holiday. It's still a one day holiday, you did have to give up our weekend.
I was really looking forward to the weekend, since I'm not allowed to travel outside of the city alone, I asked the Michigan teacher if he wanted to go sightseeing with me and were planning to go this weekend. Course Aidan cried when he heard this as I was not taking the kids. So my in-laws said they'd take the boys out somewhere(they love to when I'm not around).
I let them know due to the holiday, we wouldn't be going on the weekend and I didn't know which day we would be going on the holiday yet. You take the kids. No. I think you should take them. You don't want to watch them now? I think they will cry. So you want me to take them on a 2 hr bus ride and taking them into the mountains something you didn't want to do yourself? Fine I won't go, I'll tell him I can't go now. Yes, you make something up. I'm not going to lie.
Needless to say I was on the brink of tears that I finally had it planned to go see the mountains, they even suggested I ask one of the teachers to go with me. And now they pull this. I was seething mad, I tattled to my husband and grabbed my umbrella to get out of the house into the dark of day at 9:30 am in the middle of the storm.
As I'm leaving he lectures me about going into the mountains, that there is no search and rescue. Because I'm dumb enough to go right now in the storm by myself to the mountains!?! I'm staying in the city, I'm going shopping.
This may have been the earliest I've used the subway, the platform was filled with people wanting to go west. I was laughing at the hilariousness of finally a bit of order as they were waiting in ......lines. Course some still cut in line. My laughing caused the guy in front of me to turn around. He asked where I was from. He is living in Boston for 3 years with his family. He studied in Australia. I feel the ones who studied abroad are more normal or civilized.
When I got to my stop to change to a different line, a creepy guy, (must've heard me talking English to the first guy), comes up to me asking where I'm going making it obvious that he held a map. I obviously didn't tell him, though he asked several times. Creepy, he followed me to the car I got on. I popped out at the last second and took several connections to get to my destination.
At one of my connections I saw a fellow foreigner trying to ask for directions with her map and got the wave off. (See the double standard, they expect you to stop at their nagging to look at the crap they want to sell, but they should not be stopped to assist in a humanly capacity). So I went up to the lady and asked her if she needed help. I felt good helping her, as she needed to transfer to the other line.
Chongwenmen area, I like the Glory Mall and the underground shopping there to the Lotte Market. I went and ate a whole margarita pizza all by myself. It was thin crust, still missing spices in the sauce, but the basil gives it more flavor than I get elsewhere.
Really hoping the rain stops after 6 days of off and on drizzle, constant gray skies overcast with fog(the smog was only in the 200s, but it looked 500 with the weather).
9:30 am looks like 8pm
Sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaves
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