So Rachael and I had the BIGGEST fail of our lives yesterday (Friday). After her Chinese class, we threw everything into a bag and RAN to the train station...only to find out that there were no more tickets available for the day. Seriously? Who's going to Qingdao?? We ended up booking tickets for the next morning (Saturday morning) for a 7:10am train. Waking up at 4:30 was not pleasant whatsoever.
In order to redeem ourselves last night from our poor trip planning, we wound up embracing the "freebird status." I'm quite in love with this term that my Little cMm created while she's abroad in London. "Freebird status" is pretty self-explanatory: doing things for the heck of it because you only live once. So last night, Rachael, Andrea (my roommate), and I decided to adventure around the city. The first task on the list was to hit up a bookstore to find some beach reads. After walking out of the store empty-handed, we hopped onto the metro and headed out to find a Russian restaurant.
Russian restaurants in China? Interesting. The entire restaurant was mainly Chinese and was owned by a Chinese native. The funniest moment of the night would have to be our little sour cream debacle. Rachael had asked for some sour cream for our potato pancakes and guess what the waiter brought out. ...cream. We all burst out laughing because it was COMPLETELY off target but we survived without the sour cream. At the end of the meal the sour cream came back into the hilarity of the entire night. The waiter wound up charging us RMB 5 for the tablespoon of "sour cream." We honestly could not believe it.
All in all, I'm glad we missed the train on Friday night and had our little Russian dinner adventure.
***Poor Internet connection means no pictures available right now***
I'm currently in Qingdao right now typing up this post. It's been a great first day! However, it has now been affirmed that I am not a hostel-type of gal. My friend Sam is 100% correct whenever he calls me high-maintenanced.
No comments:
Post a Comment