craziness

so the last week or so has been so hectic hence the lack of posts, so im going to try and spell this whole situation out so it makes sense

things you need to know:
- lost my wallet (debit card and bank of china card)
-supposed to go to yunnan with pass and her family
-expecting a wire of money and a new debit card before i left for sanya
- i owe 1000 for my dorm

so i got back from sanya at midnight on tuesday night. i woke up the following morning with the hope of my fed ex package arriving with my new debit card so i could pay for my dorm. 9 hours later and 6 calls to the idiots at fedex my package arrives after the third attempt to deliver it. i got to every atm i can find to try and pull out money but i get locked out at 350 instead of the usual 700. so now im up shit creak cause i owe mike 400 for the sanya trip and then 1000 for the dorm. so now my luck banks on the money coming via wire to come in the morning, so i can leave for yunnan the following day.

thursday morning pass and i go to the bank of china at 9:30 right when it opens to find a 30 person line. ugghghghgh. so we wait for almost an hour to be helped to find out that the wire has not come yet. fuck. so now i scram frantically for some kind of idea of what to do about the money so i can leave at 12:30 with pass. after a little while i pretty much give up and have to tell pass ill have to come the following day. so i see her off to the bus station and say goodbye. after that i go to the place to buy tickets and ask about a train to yunnan only to find it is booked completely for the next 7 days. fuck. so it is then i decided to just go on my own and go the reverse of my initial plan. so i decide to go to guilin and maybe meetup with pass later in the month if possible. so things are looking up now, i was kinda hoping to travel alone for awhile.

so friday morning i go and wait at the bank for 2 hours! to get my number called finally and the money has arrived!!! i get my money and mikes money and i pay for my dorm and get everything inline. though i find out that the train to guilin only has seats and no sleepers. fuck. i just say whatever and buy the ticket, i just wanted to get out of guangzhou and start traveling.
and from then on it went pretty smoothe

im currently at my hostel in guilin and heading to yangshuo tomorrow via river boat. today i just kinda chilled about and made a painting or two. i also tried something new, instead of going into the tourist areas i just walked around the outskirts for awhile which turned out rather interesting. i found a really cool backstreet mart and accidently bought ten of these bread things when i only meant to ask if it costed 10 yuan. stupid americans. all of the chinese had to stop and get ridiculously close and look over my shoulder as i painted which got a little old but thats nothing new. im sure im pretty random, a white kid chinese painting. seriously what am i thinking.

anywho im gonna go grab some grub

keep posted

<3 田予川