THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING! I WROTE THIS IN CHINA, BUT THERE WAS NO WIFI SO I COULDN'T UPLOAD IT! SO, LETS JUST PRETEND I'M STILL IN CHINA EH?
Hey people! I don't know what time it is in England right now, but I'm kinda across the world and it's nighttime now so...it's confusing. Welcome to China, where you'll get the delightful experience of squat toilets with no tissue, the army of mosquitoes, and ruthless taxi drivers. I literally got into a type of taxi which was basically a metal frame on wheels. And the driver drove through red lights, scraped past other cars and cyclists, and I feel I was a hair breadth away from death.
Anyways yesterday, I finally came here, to China. I had a flight at local time (England)1:15pm, and I had to get up at like 8am or something to finish packing, not a nice time to wake up on a Sunday in the holidays. The flight itself was nine and a half hours long...ugh I hate long flights.
Well I guess I like the fact that there's films and TV shows on the plane...on my own personal screen! I watched Divergent (finally!) and it was amazing! I love how the film is so similar to the book (except for a few small changes) and how the characters are nearly exactly how I imagined them. Such a good film...
Though in the middle of watching it, these two random kids sat in the one seat next to me! They were kicking around there and just about turned me into a pancake. Right in the middle of Tris' fighting! The nerve of kids these days!
I also watched The Notebook, and cried disgustingly everywhere with snot flying all over the place. And I was sitting next to a stranger...yeah, sorry!
I'm hopefully going to watch the Lego Movie and Noah on the way back...
As well as films, there were also loads of TV shows...and guess what?! ("What?" you say). There was SHERLOCK! Sher-frickin-lock! It was The Empty Hearse, not one of my favourite episodes, but I'll take what you give if it's Sherlock!
And you know what I said about sleeping on the plane? Yeah...I didn't sleep at all. It was so disorientating though, we left England when it was daytime, then once in the air, it was nighttime for a few hours, and then arriving in China, it was daytime again! Nighttime was only 5-6 hours! And the thing is, by the time I arrived in China, it was 6:30 am there. That's 11:30pm in England when I would usually be in bed, sleeping. I basically had to get through another whole day without sleep! That's around 24 hours of nonstop travelling and movement and no sleep!
When my dad and I arrived at Beijing, we went to a place called the Temple of Heaven or something... It was fun, but oh so hot! I'd completely forgotten how sunny China can get, even through all the fog and smog. I probably tanned ten shades darker, but oh well...I'll be a new person when I get back to school! It was also really tiring - you must realise that it would have been around 4 in the morning in England, *sigh* jet lag sucks.
We then had lunch with a few of daddy's colleagues in China, scientists in their white overalls and all. It was hilarious, we went to the hospital's staff dining area, where everyone there were in white overalls, except for us. All the stares...*cowering under a table*
In the afternoon, we took a train to Henan, daddy's hometown. It was one of those super fast trains, so only took about 4 hours to get from Beijing to Henan in the middle of China. I finally slept a little on the train, only for 2 hours or so, but that was alright. We were also travelling first class, so the seats were extra big and comfy. Yay for unnecessary comforts!
In Henan, I was finally reunited with all my relatives. My cousins, my aunts and uncles, my grandma, and my cousin's adorable little girl. Someone please tell me what relation I am to my cousin's kid. I'm confused...something like an auntie? My lord I feel ancient. We all squished together and had dinner, and that, my dear friends, was the end of the day...or two days? I don't know!
This was a really jam-packed post, loads of stuff happened so it jumped around loads...sorry about that, but that's all for today thankfully.
I love y'all, and goodbye! Goodbye from China! Xxx
