by bum is too big for china : (

hello everyone!
I can't beleive two weeks have already passed. Next week i'll be teaching at Zicha elementary school and then off to explore.

We were supposed to participate in a hike up a mountain with one of the elementary schools in town (an event to celebrate the olympics) but a typhoon is coming so it got cancelled. However, we are still making our afternoon trip to Haiping (our coordinator Peter's wife's village). I'm not too sure why one things is cancelled and not the other but..... when in China.... (don't worry mom i'll stay safe).

Tomorrow we'll be going to Guangzhou for the day. It is the largest city around however i've heard it is very polluted and difficult to breathe clearly. I hope the experience will be better than it sounds!

Yesterday i had the afternoon off and walked around Jiangmen while people stared at the white girl trying to buy a pair of pants (my bum is too big for China), I kept saying "b-i-g-g-e-r" and widening my arms apart. Nothing. Only size 25 or 28 at the largest! All the cute little chinese girls laughed! So after my self esteem was nice and low i did what any other foreigner would do and had a soft serve swirl cone at McDonalds! The chocolate and vanilla one, yummy!
Later, I met Julie and we went to get our hair washed and a head massage. ITs like at the normal salon when they wash your hair except that you're lying down on a comfortable bed instead of having an awkward kink in your neck. They suds up your hair and massage your head, neck, back, shoulders and legs too (Which was really ticklish and i kept squirming). Oh they even do this ear cleaning thing (not as grosse as it sounds!) Then i got my hair trimmed very presisely. All this for under $5 Cdn!
Friday night on our way out around 9 pm. a mini bus came to deliver live chickens to the school cafeteria. We were all waiting for cabs to the bar so he offered us a ride; after dropping off the chickens ofcourse. We jumped in and cruised to the bar in the chicken bu. It was acually a fancy mini bus, i don't know what the chikens were doing in it? Guess what was for lunch the next day??? yup FRESH chicken! We attended Class Bar and played drinking games after the chiken bus dropped us off and then moved on to Baby Feel (weird name, i know)for some dancing.

Thats about all the excitement at the moment! I've been working on planning our trip for the next month which is exciting and will consist of boats, treehouses and beach huts! STAY TUNED!