Day Twenty-Eight

Surprise! I'm in Macau,( or at least I should be). This morning I called Fiona to go to the business center to figure some stuff out regarding flights and what not. She answered and to my dismay woke up with a temperature. She told me that instead of going to Guangzhou she is going directly to Macau. When she called me back a couple hours later she asked me how to spell my name so that she could buy me a ticket, ( I think she knew that I really didn't want to stay on this island by myself).

So instead of staying in Hainan until July 3rd I'm going to go to Macau, (we leave from the Sanya Airport @ 7pm). Anyways, ( Mom don't kill me, I know there is no such word as "anyways" but I don't know how else to start 25% of my sentences), for the remainder of the day I have just been packing up my stuff, going down to the pool, and figuring out how I'm going to get my itinerary and re-entry visa stuff in order. Back to the room until we leave. I love you guys so much and, mom/dad, I promise I'll call when I touch down in Macau, (probably @ 6:00 AM your time). Later dudes!

...five hours later

We landed in Guangzhou around eight o'clock at night. From the airport Fiona's driver picked us up and drove us down to the Macau border, ( approximately a two hour drive), and then we took a taxi to Fiona's house. Once we got to the house we had a small dinner and now everyone is going to go to sleep. Night everyone!

Day Twenty-Six

Hey everyone! I am now in the comfortable confines of Sanya, Hainan. This morning half of our group left to come back home. The rest of us met up in the hotel lobby to check out. Once we checked out we hired some taxis to take us to the charter bus station. Unfortunately, when we were getting out of the taxi I tried to assist our driver and further ripped the front passenger seat in his cab. This angered the small man and he began to incessantly yell at me. Long story short, he tagged along us into the bus station until I rightfully paid him 100 RMB, ( = $15 USD).

Anyways, once we rid ourselves of the disgruntled taxi driver we jumped onto the bus to start our trip from Haikou to Sanya, Hainan. The ride wan no more than three and a half hours. Once we got to the city my friend Fiona, her mother and I split up from my professor and her assistant, ( they will be staying at the Marriott, 30 minutes away). We got my new resting place Tianfuyuan Resort around three o'clock. I'm all settled in.

Since all the other students are gone I can only access the internet via the hotel's business center so henceforth I will probably only post in the early afternoon "my time." I'm going to go on a hotel and beach adventure right now. I have all the amenitities I need so I won't be leaving the hotel today or tonight. Love you guys!