First Real Culture Stress Moment

sooo i know...i'm not keeping up with this thing at all...BUT that's only because i wasn't able to access it till tonight. But things are going great right now, i got into my dorm on tuesday...and needless to say...its....tiny. and i have a roommate....from Germany. Which is pretty cool. But this week has kinda been just me getting use to the city and the way things work. Currently i'm feeling extremely sick. Like flu type stuff.....so i've been inside most of the day.

I do have one story to tell you.......I think today was my first REAL day of Culture Stress....haha.

So this morning I was suppose to get on a bus by myself and go to the subway to meet a friend there...well as i was running up to the bus stop i see my bus and it closes the doors and takes off right as I was running up to it. So i wanted to keep positive and i told myself another bus will come no problem i'll be like 5 minutes late to meeting them.....30 MINUTES pass...and NO bus. I was stressing big timmeeee. So i thought of this great idea...haha. i would just get in a taxi and ask them to take me to the subway....except...the minor detail of....i dont know how to say subway in Chinese....haha. so i'm like awesome i'm stranded..and i'm going to get left...because my friends are known for leaving you if you're not on time. haha. so all the sudden i just randomly asked this guy..."english?" and he said "little" and i said, "can you say subway?" and he was like, "uhh" and i showed him my subway card and i was like "subway, fast train, i need to go there, subway" and he was like oh ok yeah no problem subway, so i got a taxi and i said "tell him subway" and all the sudden he was like "no no i take bus" and i was like "i know you will take the bus but can you just say subway?" and he was like "no no i take bus" so after about a minute and a half of arguing and begging him to just say subway he says "i go with you" and he jumps in the taxi. So I'm just hoping whatever he said in chinese had something to do with the subway. AND IT DID! so the taxi pulls over and the guy pays him...and we had another argument i was like i will pay for the taxi and he was like no no i pay and i was like no i will pay....this poor taxi driver....so after arguing he pays for the taxi and then goes in the subway and gets on the same train as i did....so i panicked.....and i went and hid 3 cars down. haha. Nevertheless my friend waited for me and she could see the stress and panic on my face...all she could do was laugh. But i did see the same guy in the cafeteria tonight....so i just walked out. haha. fun day.

now i'm going to take some medicine and get to bed. I love you all so much and I miss you!!


P.S. this blog and all of the following blogs WILL NOT be grammatically correct in ANY way. haha sorry if that bothers you....it takes to much thought process to correct everything.