ABROAD IN
Sunday, July 30th: This day, I woke up at 9, and was really bored until 10 when I decided that I should probably do something. My older sister said she was going to go shopping with me at 2, but I still had 4-5 hours of just sitting around, so when my dad came home at about 10:30, I asked him if I could go sightseeing with Alexandra. He came home with groceries in his hand, so he was like eat lunch first! He said he would make it quickly. Alexandra was already on her way to this old palace, so I told him I had to be there quickly. I didn’t know that lunch was going to take him over an hour to make, or else I would have left and ate lunch on the road. I was a little annoyed because after he cooked it, he wanted to eat in in their clothing shop, so we had to walk all the way to the clothing shop to eat lunch. Then, I literally sprinted to the subway stop which is about 8 minutes away, because it was already 12:10. I feel so bad because Alexandra was waiting for me for a while. Anyways, I arrived at DaXingGong, and it was pretty interesting. It’s this old palace that the old rulers of Nanjing used to live in. We waited in line for tickets (the line was soo long), and because we were students (I showed them my Nanjing University card), we got tickets for half off, so 20 yuan. Also, this has happened to me and Alexandra a lot, but when we speak Chinese to people, they speak English back to us. It’s almost as if they don’t think we will be able to understand them? But, a lot of the time, their English is bad so I can’t understand them. For instance, when we got to the lady that sells tickets, we understood her Chinese perfectly when she spoke Chinese, but she would answer back a lot in English. When she would say something in English, we literally couldn’t understand her. She was meaning to say 40, but we thought she was saying 14, but if she said it in Chinese, it would have been clearer. The palace had a lot of information on the history of the people who lived there and the palace itself. We left, and I bought some souvenirs for my family back home. After, it was already about 2:40, so I called my sister and told her I was ready to be picked up. I called my sister before I left to see the palace because I got there later than expected, so she knew I was going to be late. I got to Xinjiekou and waited for her for over an hour. To pass the time, I bought some Strawberry Shake with boba at Thirsty Frog and decided to go shopping on my own until she came. She eventually came, and together we bought a ton of stuff. I got a pair of jeans, a shirt, and some fake vans. I’m broke now. We shopped for about 5 hours and ate dinner at about 10 (we stopped at the shop and talked with the family). Oh, awkward moment. The older sister that I went shopping with bought my host mom a purse because she wanted a new one, which was such a nice thing for her to do. She bought this green Michael Kors fake purse for about 100 yuan, and we brought it back. The mom didn’t even thank her, but was pointing out the bad things about it. My older sister was trying to prove how it was a good purse, and making her mom try to like it, but the mom was complaining how it was too small, etc. It was kind of rude, and my older sister got a little angry. Anyway, we got home pretty late and I still had a lot of homework to work on. I connected a lot with my older sister that day though. Spent all my money. Literally only have 1 yuan left. We went out to dinner and got some Blood Duck Soup. It's a Nanjing specialty and actually pretty tasty!
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Andrea 施安雅17-year-old XC runner and boba tea lover living in Seattle but studying abroad in China. Also, I have a cat! Archives
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