DRUNKEN BLOG INTERLUDE 2

Hello all from Siyang. Welcome to the last blog from Siyang...most likely. Laura and I made a joint decision to get rather drunk on our second to last day here because we have the intention on leaving quite early for Shanghai after our last day, and figured being drunk/hungover for a 7 hour bus ride would be horrendous. Even if we are lucky enough to get a car ride there, we don't want to be asking them to pull over so we can get sick on the side of the Chinese highway. Either way it looks as though we will be taking the public bus to Shanghai because the headmaster of the school was too drunk to remember that he promised us a ride...and booked the school car for the same day we planned to leave. Which sucks.....and isn't fair. And the worst part is that when he was nicely reminded about his promise he had no recollection of what he said. Stupid Chinese people not being about to handle their booze, and getting themselves into a difficult situation. In a country that bases itself on saving face, I can promise that they have done nothing close to the sort in helping us get to Shanghai after our term is over. WE have one more full day here and are praying that something works itself out for our benefit. We've been more than accommodating for the last 5 months and thing we have deserved something relatively easy to go our way. Seriously.

Whatever we were promised a ride and now we aren't getting it....but we did get some money exchanged today. And, let me tell you, American money looks like play money. I used to feel the same about the money in China, but now that i'm used to it....everything else is a joke, except in actual value. Either way, we got some money and laid some guilt on the people in our school that have cars, or access to cars and hopefully we'll be able to get a ride to Shanghai without having to deal with multiple forms of mass transit with multiple pieces of luggage..... wish us luck.... hopefully i'll be back tomorrow after my final day at the middle school to close out my time in Siyang sans alcohol!!!! Get pumped :)