Oh the things I do for adventures

24.08.2015

Suki's mother in law made us breakfast and we went to the train station to buy my ticket to Longnan later in the evening. She was a little confused about why I would go there, and then she made me a little confused also. This was the second Jiangxi-ite who had no idea where Longnan was and what I might do there.

There were people on Couchsurfing registered in Ganzhou, a town about two hours away, but none of them had answered me after at least a week of writing. My train would arrive at 1 a.m. anyway, so asking someone to meet me at that time on a Tuesday night was rude. I'd have to catch an 8 a.m. train to Longnan the next morning anyway. Oh well, no couchsurfing tonight.\

After coming back from the station, we all took a nap. I slept for three hours at least. I must've needed it. My alarm went off at 5:30 p.m. and we gobbled down more homemade food (including white gourd and cabbage)

My host in Zhuhai had also recently cancelled on me due to work, so I spent much of the day asking other hosts who had accepted me if they would host me still. I was lucky to find two people, Diana and Jenny. If I stayed there two nights each, that would be four nights in Macau, probably plenty.

So, today was mostly a day of sleeping, blogging and begging for accommodation on couchsurfing.

Suki had a little baby, about six months old, and everyone was absolutely obsessed with him. Suki was busy most of the time taking care of him, but that was OK because I needed some computer and nap time anyway.

I felt a little terrible for her. Apparently, in China, it's traditional for your mother in law to move in with you, after you have had a baby. She never had any privacy. Even if she was breastfeeding her son, her parents-in-law were sitting right there with her, on the bed, watching. So think about it, her husband's dad has seen her boobs many many times...

I caught the train just barely after waking up to my alarm and I quickly said goodbye. We almost had to run to the station, but we got there right on time. The train arrived in Ganzhou at 2 a.m. and I went with a woman who gave me a room for 80 yuan. She never told me there would be no toilet seat, no air conditioning, a broken mirror and a shower in a bucket though.

Suki and her family