Today I had to go get a new cell phone since I lost mine the night before. Super frustrating, but I got the same, blue, cute Nokia phone that I had originally so life is good ☺. Phones are not expensive here anyhow. One of the Co-op students, Mike came with me to negotiate since he is fluent in Mandarin. We stopped for some food along the way three min away from where we live. There is a row of “restaurants” right in our neighbourhood along the way to the University that have these amazing pork bun dumpling things. We call it dumpling alley. Haha. The pork buns are seriously only 30 cents each and they are amazing. They remind me of English Pasties that my parents and I would get in Grass Valley, California.Later in the day the guys and I went to Wal-Mart to get some supplies for the apartment. It was our first time leaving and going out on our own. We took the bus to Wal-Mart and it felt like a success since we arrived haha. We spent about 3 hours in the Wal-Mart trying to find everything, and it was also just very interesting seeing all of the strange things they had there. Everything from live turtles, to pigs feet. Did not feel like a Wal-Mart at all! One of the highlights was finding Snickers bars for about 50 cents. Uh oh….. The cab ride home was pretty comical too. We all tried to pronounce the name of our residence and the driver had no idea what we were talking about, so we just pointed in the direction we needed to go and signed for him to stop when we got there. Luckily we just needed to go in a straight line so it was not too bad. And the cab driver had a sense of humor, or he was just laughing at us. Either way we got home ☺. In the evening we went to a BBQ place near our apartments with Mike. It was really yummy, so many different types of skewers and meats. Mmmm. Lots of good beer and fun times hanging out with everyone.
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