Chinese word of the day: huanying-means-welcome
British word of the day:vertually-means-litterally/nearly completed.
Slept in this morning! Got a whole extra 20 min of sleep... When I woke up I wasn't hungry. I guess I was still full from dinner last night next door.
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| Me and Sam at our 'next door' place to eat |
So I grabbed my laptop and went online. After a couple hours Sam and I decided to go into the town of Yantai and get some PIZZA HUT for lunch. I wanted Pizza real bad. So we ordered a taxi through the academy and while we were waiting one of the new guys, Rob, asked us what we were doing today. Rob is 26 years old and from Germany. We told him we were going into Yantai for lunch. He told us how he wanted to get the basic supplies one needs to stay at the academy such as shampoo, toilet paper, some snacks, and especailly some breakfast food. I remembered how lucky I was to have Sam help me on my first weekend trip to town and Rob didn't have a nice roommate so I felt bad and asked him if he wanted our help. We told him we would take him to the supermarket to get his supplies. He sad he would definitely like for us to show him around. So the three of us got the taxi and headed to Yantai to the clothing market. We walked around and I bought a couple things like a belt and wallet.
The fun thing about the market is you can bargin with the sales people. When i was looking for a wallet the lady told me a me a high price. Sam told me that we have to bargin the price down. Sam and I got the price down to half the offered price. It was fun bargining. Soon I started wanting to buy things just so I can bargin with them... But i knew I didn't really need a new pair of pants or shoes so I walked out of the market trying to resist the urge to stop and heckle some sailsperson. Sam got a jacket and Rob got some pants and a jacket. Then after that we were pretty hungry since none of us ate breakfast. Now we wanted to eat at Pizza Hut.
The fun thing about the market is you can bargin with the sales people. When i was looking for a wallet the lady told me a me a high price. Sam told me that we have to bargin the price down. Sam and I got the price down to half the offered price. It was fun bargining. Soon I started wanting to buy things just so I can bargin with them... But i knew I didn't really need a new pair of pants or shoes so I walked out of the market trying to resist the urge to stop and heckle some sailsperson. Sam got a jacket and Rob got some pants and a jacket. Then after that we were pretty hungry since none of us ate breakfast. Now we wanted to eat at Pizza Hut.
Before we left the academy Sam and I went to one of the translators and had them translate "Pizza Hut", "Clothing Market", "take us back to the academy" so all we would have to do is point at the word and show the driver. When we pointed to the word 'pizza hut' on the paper and showed the driver, we were surprised when the driver said in passable English, "Ah, pizza hut ya." The school always highers the same taxi drivers and I guess other students been to Pizza Hut as well. Soon we got to the resturant and i was surprised that it was a really fancy resturant. Pizza Hut back in my home town of Stockton is a decent resturant but the Pizza Hut in Yantai had two floors and looked like a 5 star hotel's resturant. Maybe since it serves 'foreign food' the prices are high so it can have a rich apperence or maybe it's so pretty since it is in a new building and eveything looks perfect. We got our seats and we all ordered our own personal pizza and I got a side of spaghetti. after we devoured this 'foreign delicacy'
we walked out of the Pizza Hut and saw that across the stree there was a WalMart Super Store. So we went to the taxi but we didn't have the word Walmart written on our paper. I hoped the driver understood 'Walmart' as well as he knew 'Pizza Hu't so I tried. I said, "WalMart?" He nodded and took us to Walmart. The weird thing was that the store was under ground. We had to take an escalator down under the street like we were going to a subway train. There were so many shops. It was like a whole city underground. We found the entrance to Walmart and we split up. I bought a blanket and a pillow for my room. Sam didn't get anything and when I ran into Rob I helped him find some oatmeal and other stuff he would need.
After Walmart we headed to a "milk shake shop" Sam said was near by. I got the best Gelato milkshake I ever had. Then Rob asked if there was a place we could get massages. This was the end of his first week and of course his first week made him sore. Sam and I decided we could use a massage too. So the three of us went to the medical massage place that Sam and I went to before and we all got a quick massage. Then we headed back to the academy but we were out so late we missed dinner. After I showered up, Sam and I went next door for dinner and our friend Issac tagged a long.Issac was the guy I mentioned who had the Hebrew writing on his shirt the other day. Issac said this was a Jewish dinner since all three of us were Jewish. We started talking about religions and how Issac served in the Israeli army for two and a half years when he was 18. (he is only 21 now.) He told us some crazy stories of his training days and how everyone had a gun walking around the city. I was fimilar with some of the things he described in Israel because I saw somethings he was talking about when I went to israel. Then after dinner we headed back to the academy. No drunk guy this time. And now I'm about to go to bed.
we walked out of the Pizza Hut and saw that across the stree there was a WalMart Super Store. So we went to the taxi but we didn't have the word Walmart written on our paper. I hoped the driver understood 'Walmart' as well as he knew 'Pizza Hu't so I tried. I said, "WalMart?" He nodded and took us to Walmart. The weird thing was that the store was under ground. We had to take an escalator down under the street like we were going to a subway train. There were so many shops. It was like a whole city underground. We found the entrance to Walmart and we split up. I bought a blanket and a pillow for my room. Sam didn't get anything and when I ran into Rob I helped him find some oatmeal and other stuff he would need.
After Walmart we headed to a "milk shake shop" Sam said was near by. I got the best Gelato milkshake I ever had. Then Rob asked if there was a place we could get massages. This was the end of his first week and of course his first week made him sore. Sam and I decided we could use a massage too. So the three of us went to the medical massage place that Sam and I went to before and we all got a quick massage. Then we headed back to the academy but we were out so late we missed dinner. After I showered up, Sam and I went next door for dinner and our friend Issac tagged a long.Issac was the guy I mentioned who had the Hebrew writing on his shirt the other day. Issac said this was a Jewish dinner since all three of us were Jewish. We started talking about religions and how Issac served in the Israeli army for two and a half years when he was 18. (he is only 21 now.) He told us some crazy stories of his training days and how everyone had a gun walking around the city. I was fimilar with some of the things he described in Israel because I saw somethings he was talking about when I went to israel. Then after dinner we headed back to the academy. No drunk guy this time. And now I'm about to go to bed.
Goodnight
-Scott
haha u bought things just so u could bargain lol u should make money that way...just hang around there and find out what some ppl want to buy than when they find it u bargain n get a portion of what u saved them instead of buying stuff u dont even need lol is their pizza hut hecka different from ours in the U.S.? food wise like do they make a chow mein topping pizza lmao =] dude u should make some flash cards or somethin n put them in alphabetical order in english wit the translation on the other side that way when u need something u just look it up in english then show them the word in chinese but it also has a way for u to pronounce it so u learn while u get things done instead of guess and hope lol underground sounds like a good idea to save room for all the ppl out there since they're the most populated cuz they get busy (ya kno what im sayn? haha) sounds like ur about to start another tradition too haha gonna start having a jewish dinner once in a while
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