Day 93: April 6, 2013

     We all kind of slept in this morning to prepare for a long day of studying. I woke up to some maids cleaning my room, which was kind of awkward, so I just waited until they left and then headed to the lobby. I ordered the French toast for breakfast, which really hit the spot. It was really cheap for how much food I got and it came with fresh fruit, eggs, and sausage. I used my free instant coffee coupon and started right in on studying. 

Chengdu city

     I studied all day while Jess and Bryan did some blogging and Skyping. I took a little break for a little lunch of fried rice and then continued with the studying until it was time to grab some dinner and head to the airport. We walked towards the bus stop with a horrible map and somehow ended up right at the corner where we were supposed to be. We needed some food before a long flight and we searched around but nowhere really seemed to have picture menus. We ended up stopping a student and asking if he knew of a good restaurant that might have picture menus. He pointed us towards a place right by the bus stop that was called Beefsteak. We decided to just go for it and it turned out to have a really good menu. We all got these steak meals that came with a fruit bar, garlic bread, soup, noodles, vegetables, and an egg and all of it was delicious even though we are pretty sure it wasn’t quite the best quality steak. 

Bye Chengdu!

     After enjoying our meal we paid and just walked outside to catch the bus and got right on. After not too long we were at the airport with plenty of time to spare especially since our flight was running late. We all sat around and chatted in the terminal until it was finally time to board. Of course we sat on the tarmac for over an hour and then once we got in the air I couldn’t fall asleep so I just sat and listened to music. They made us put up our tray tables and such and then we continued to fly around Shanghai for another hour and a half, which was pretty frustrating but eventually we were finally on the ground. We had to get on one of those shuttle buses just to drive us in a circle and about 100 ft from where we got on but then we were finally where we needed to be. We rushed over to the cab line and got in one in a matter of minutes and then had a decent cab ride back to the dorm. Since it was around 1:30 we had to wake up the aunties to let us in but they were very nice because I don’t think they were actually asleep yet. With that we made it up to our rooms, climbed into to bed, and passed out.