Back to lingxi!

Woke up at 9 and text chris, at 9.30 I called him as I hadn't got a reply and woke him up apparently he had slept awfully on the hard bed and begged for half an hour more so I packed slowly and lounged around in my lovely bed. 

We went downstairs and checked out, as we checked out I had to give back their keys for the front doors and explain why their padlock key was not quite as I left it, when we got back last night I had tried to open the door but when I couldn't i twisted a little harder and accidentally bent the padlock key in the lock! luckily it still opened but was most definitely bent!

They were ok with that and still gave us our full key deposit which was good, and helped us by writing out the characters for train station in chinese, huo che xhen, fire car stop litally! 

We got a bus into the centre of town and I got talking to a girl from HK who was very friendly, she was actually from yangshou province, a place we would love to go, and so maybe she can show us around, or at least give us some tips when we go there for the summer! 

In the centre I got Chris breakfast to cheer him up from his awful nights sleep and then we wandered around for a while exploring xiamen, then we got on the BTR and I correctly told them where I wanted to go in chinese again! 

Around the station was a big Tesco and Wallmart, we went to both desperately stocking up on things that we can't find in our small town, we bought curry mix and thai flavourings and chris ended up buying a volleyball too before we headed to our train back. 

Waiting for the train they had a large room full of chairs, into this room designed to fit 50=100 people comfortably then crammed 400 or more people all smoking and drinking, eating strange and smelly food, but then...thats china!

Trained it back with no problems and walked back to our flat from the station, we are so lucky that our of the whole province for 50miles around we live less than a mile from the station with a direct route to the rest of china. The station was not even built last year, and there was no route to Xiamen then either, a very different experience for the teachers then compared to now, its a prefect place to travel the whole of the south! 

Chilled out today and then went shopping, then Chris taught his english corner, he walked into the lesson with a memory stick with a film, and found that the power was out for the whole building! doh! so ended up pulling a lesson our of his....ear, and running with it, but it seems to have worked!

Photos of Xiamen to come!