drag racing and a sleeper bus

Today has already been an adventure and it's only 2 p.m. Mr. Li told us a taxi was going to pick us up right at 10 o'clock sharp so we could catch our sleeper bus at 11. Well, we got outside and there was no taxi. We called Mr. Li and he said that we had to wait until 12 to catch the bus at 12:30.

We decided to all go inside and watch a movie, go to lunch, then meet the taxi driver. At about 11:15 Mr. Li calls saying the taxi driver is there so we had to go outside NOW. (It sucks trying to figure things out when people speak little or no English). 

Emily and I went to our apartment to grab our stuff and come walking outside to a very small car. Were they thinking they could shove all 8 of us in it?! We both started dying of laughter because it had to be a joke. Out of nowhere a small truck comes whipping around the corner, so we were laughing even harder We split up and crawled into the two small cars. I was in the truck with Hannah, Emily and Kelli. He was flying down the hill and we thought we were gonna die in the first 2 minutes. He pulled up to the school and told us to get into another car instead of the piece of crap truck.

What do you know, we are flying down the road!! We were going about 60 mph on a 35 mph road. I almost peed my pants from laughing so hard. We were all flying around! Wearing our seatbelts of course. We made it to a main road that I'm pretty sure you are only supposed to go like 60 mph. Nope, our driver chose to go 95 instead. Chinese people literally are the craziest drivers ever!! They don't use blinkers, and just honk at everyone to get out of the way. I felt like we were racing because he was weaving in and out of cars like it was nobody's business.

Five minutes later we made it to the bus stop. Okay maybe 20 minutes but it felt like 5. After waiting for 15 minutes this huge bus comes rolling up. They are shoving us on the bus, as they're yelling at us to take our shoes off! This bus is crazy cool! No seats, just beds everywhere! We all are on top bunks and people were taking pictures when we got on. I'm guessing it's entertaining for them to watch us look so stupid and confused.

After a few hours we finally made our first stop. Everybody and their dog needed to freaking smoke. And of course I had to pee with no bathroom around. We had to show our bus driver our Mandarin translation to find the toilet. Remember though that they don't have real bathrooms here. Stupid squatters that are nasty. And smell really bad. 

It took us a grand total of 16 hours to get here! I wanted to die. The beds weren't long enough for me to lay normally in so it was just awkward! I took some NyQuil to help me sleep because I have this stinkin cold, but nope. Didn't work very well! I was in and out of it alllll night and it was no bueno. I woke up at about 3 and the bus was parked at a gas station. I thought to myself that we stopped for gas. Nope. 3 hours we were there! I guess the bus driver wanted to take a little nap. 

I was so out of it while driving in Yangshuo but this place is gorgeous!! The mountains are so cool looking!

Today we are going on some kind of adventure so I'm looking forward to that.

loves.