Monday 25 July 2011

Extra day in Chongqing

We met the girls for breakfast and Chris was very keen to stay an extra day here and they seemed friendly so we decided to stay on another day.
As we checked out a girl working there called fish gave us her Qq number. We had spoken to her a few times and she was pretty fun, a bit sad that we were leaving though! She was however full on crazy and would always greet us by shouting naysan across the place as loud as she could, sweet though!

We met Cecilia and huanghe and they had decided to spend a night in another part of Chongqing to see a specific district in the night, not being ones for strict plans we decided to stay and spend the day in Chongqing, nothing to do with Chris being a little taken, and I have had worse days that spending time with the pretty friend. When we visited a temple in the old town huanghe (the Chinese girl with no English name) got talking to a random Chinese Guy who then invited himself along for the day, very strange! After the temple we checked out and got the bus to our old hostel with the girls along too, unfortunately the hostel was full but they recommended another Hostel in town. Eventually we got two taxis to the new hostel, still with the girls and this random Guy and ended up in the strangest hostel yet. It was an old 20 floor Chinese hotel which was now a huge but mostly unused hostel. The staff however were friendly and after checking in and dumping our bags we all went to the top floor to see the view, and took lots of pictures at the top, much to the surprise of the washer women hanging clothes there!
Had a good day around town after that and did some window shopping as well as some straw hat shopping, the latest fashion out here! We got some super spicy local speciality food and then retired to a swanky coffee shop and spent a few hours ordering random things and practising Chinese. Cecilia taught me some local slang words that elaine cannot teach me, some of which I think are very cool, as well as explaining to me some of the crazy complicated faces they make in text messages as well as a million other things about Chinese culture.
It was getting late when the random Guy had to leave but he gave us a beautifully written goodbye picture in Chinese which I have kept. The girls and Chris and I got a taxi to the hotel and while Chris and huanghe went to the room Cecilia and I, on the pretense of buying cards, went for a walk around the area. We went down a Backstreet exploring and it was very cool until suddenly Cecilia grabbed me and pulled me back to the main street pointing at some signs painted on the wall. This cool old house was not only condemmed and unsafe but also a crime scene!

We bought a pack of cards and stayed up in the girls room teaching them poker and a few other games and being taught 'beat the landlord ', a very popular Chinese game!
Eventually headers off to bed pretty late , good fun though!

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