Day 18 220506: Muddy Day

Last night I had this weird dream. Me and my dear cousin were in a school as teachers and she introduced a nice female teacher to me. And I still remember her name was called June in my dream. Haha. My cousin was a tutor in a tuition agency and she occasionally would intro gals to me. Well, that explains that funny dream.


Anyway, today is a muddy day due to the heavy snow last night. Now that the snow had melted, the road was very muddy and the jeep was moving at a very slow pace. We had to wind down the windows or else the mud would fly in. My face gana a bit of mud when damn Kenneth wound down the front window a little. Somewhere middle of the road, our jeep got stuck in the mud and the 4 of us had to get out and help push the car. This was the 2nd time we had to do this. The first was when the jeep was stuck in granite stones.

Once we were out, it was bumpy ride all the way to Xigaze. We came through the same way, which was under construction and thus was the toughest ride ever. The weather was changing all the time and a thunderstorm was right behind us closing up.

But after a while, we entered a desert place with sand dunes all around. Reminded me of the game Dune and we were trying to recall the 3 Houses in the game. Atreides, Hakkonon and one more which we couldnt remember. Ordos. Yes that is it. Kenneth was busy shitting among the bushes then. Dozing off along the way and thinking of Yi Tian Tu Long Ji, we finally reached Xigaze.

We didn’t have lunch and everyone was dead hungry. Still, we took hell lot of time finding lodging. Exceptionally long today. Normally we would strike a deal by the 3rd hotel. This time the 4 of us had so much discrepancies that we couldn’t find a hotel that everyone agreed by dinner time. In the end, we decided to have dinner first then continue.

It was ZK who chose a hotel for us in the end which wasn’t really cheap but rather comfortable. We rested a while and then went out for internet. After internet, CCG, Ken and I went to have Fried Chicken!!! We had been waiting for this day to come for a long long time. Finally we had fried chicken which tasted simply heavenly.

We bought a chicken wing for JH back in the hotel. We spent the rest of the night watching 超级女生. My favourite candidate was 张亚飞. It was like a Chinese Singapore Idol, except much grander. The competition I was watching was only for 长沙区.

It was a good night rest until at 0443am, someone was banging hardly on JH and mine room. JH got out of bed and open the door and we saw 3 policemen stormed into our room. They asked where are we from and what are we doing here. And then demanded to check our passports. I was still very much in half sleeping mode. After checking, they just left and I went back to sleep as if nothing had happened.