so chantelle and me wanted to go to xiaolan today just to explore. so, projected plan we take the 4:10 shuttle, and go exploring xiaolan, and we had a couple of things we wanted to look for and then take either the 7:50 or 9:10 shuttle back
good to go right?
ha
so we take the 4:10 shuttle and we're on it
and its only us and another guy
so it takes approx 25 minutes to get to xiaolan if he just takes the straight way there
but this is the most unpredictable bus driver, he has a bunch of ways he always goes but we're used to it
well this time we start going the regular way and he turns into some alley road
and we're like uh.. alright. never been this way cool
well traffic was really bad on the main road
so we're thinking he's just avoiding traffic
but then he turns to a road that headed us back in guzhen direction
and we're like, um.. okay
so pretty much like half an hour later we're back on the main road heading to xiaolan again
so pretty much waste of time
then we're going and he takes a completely different way we've never ever seen
like we passed all of these tree farms and all of this stuff
okay so we get to a kind of townish part, because before we were somwhere out in the country
and then the bus driver just pulls off to the side and we're like oh maybe he's dropping this guy off,
no he turns off the bus and just sits there
and the guys just sitting there like nothings happening
so we're like um.. alright
maybe he's just waiting for something
so we wait like 15 minutes
and these guy just dont even acknowledge us
so we have no idea whats going on
and the drivers talking to this other guy on the bus and we hear him say 7 oclock
so we're like um, is he just going to sit here for 2 hours until his next run?
because i think he was too late for the xiaolan pickup/dropping us off
and they're not telling us anything
so we're kind of laughing kind of like what the heck
so finally we're just like okay lets just get off and get a taxi to the RT mart (the mall in xiaolan)
so we go up to the driver and are like okay let us off and they just laugh at us as he opens the door and gives a retarded buh-bye to us
and we're kind of peeved at this point in time
oh yea
so
its pouring today by the way
like raining non-stop
aaaaaand my umbrella broke
okay so we get off the bus and are walking in the rain to a street we see where we might catch a taxi
the whole time just cursing this guys name
so we're walking down the street and no taxis are driving by
so after about 15 minutes of walking we're like, ugh.. should we just get a motor-taxi?
and i pretty much was okay with going through my china experience never having to ride one of these
its a guy on a motorcycle and you get on the back
so we decided to do it, but i'm like um.. i dont want to ride alone can we see if me and chantelle can ride together
so we find 2 callie's on one and me and chantelle are on another
and we're just going down the road for a bit. and holy crap we have no idea where the shuttle driver was taking us because number one we were still in guzhen and number 2 we were pretty much in the middle of nowhere
so we're riding along and our guy is following callie's guy
and then we get back to the main road headed to xiaolan, so we're like oh good, something familiar
then we take a turn and split up from callie
mind you when i say we're going through traffic, we go through the traffic
as in squeeze past cars like 6 inches away from us
go on sidewalks
whatnot
chinese driving
and its two girls on the back of a motorcycle i'm just holding onto the guys jacket and chantelle's holding onto me, and we dont have helmets and chinese driving scares us enough without having to be on a motorcycle
so we split off and then we get to this bridge we normally cross
well our guys on the wrong side of the road on a motorbike sidewalk
and he just stops in the middle of the bridge and says something in chinese
and we're pretty sure he wants us to get off
and we're like um. no.
we're not at the RT mart
so we keep saying du fan yen (thats how you say it)
and pointing
and finally he takes us across the bridge and then just stops
and we're like um, what?!
and we see his gage is on empty so we're like oh, maybe he's just run out of gas
and the traffics pretty bad so we're like oh, maybe he just cant get through.
but after we thought he ran out of gas we pulled up a little more, so clearly we still had gas
and then we sat there on the side of the road and waiting for no joke like 20 minutes and we get off the motortaxi
because we're just kind of confused
and we wait long enough to where the traffics cleared
so we have no idea why this guy stopped
so we're standing there and the guys not going anywhere and not acknowledging us at all
so we're just confused
so we try motion to him and tell him we're just going to walk
so then he says something in chinese and then goes on ignoring us
so we're like.. um.. what?
so we try and figure out if he just wants us to wait and he'll take us or if we're done and he wants us to pay him
after prolly 25 minutes of standing next to him we just hand him some money and say we're walking
so then we're out in the middle of nowhere
we always cross that bridge to get to xiaolan and its pretty much at the beginning of the shuttle ride
so we're like nowhere
so we walk
in the rain some more
and we're just trying to find a taxi at this point
but again no taxi
and i swear this wasnt a coincidence
but we see one of our vans from our kindergarten that takes kids home
and we see one of the drivers we always say hi to
and he honks and waves at us
probably thinking what the heck are the english teachers doing out here
so he offered us a ride but we asked what direction the RT mart was and he pointed us in the right direction
so we thank him and go off walking
and we give in and just get another motor taxi
ugh
and thankfully this guy takes us to the RT mart
but on this one there was nowhere to put my feet so i just had to hold them up
and its pouring, and we dont have hoods or umbrellas
and pretty much just got puddle after puddle in my shoe
so we got there
at 6:10
a 25 minute shuttle ride, took us 2 freaking hours.
oh china.
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