I just lost my drain of thought

Day Two I went shopping for clothes on this street called Kang Le Nan. I didn’t really end up with much. I think all I got was a shirt or something because there wasn’t anything that good there and it was kind of expensive. I was very bummed because Stunner closed! It was the whole reason why I came. Just kidding but I was looking forward to going there. We also couldn’t find this store called Gray Mice. Yargh. My mom was really annoyed because people at big stores like to set up giant speakers outside and either blast techno or yell stuff about how great and cheap their clothes are so she got sick of shopping there. We walked to this market (with some crazy high tech lockers that use this scanner thing to open) that we went to the day before to buy more fruit. I missed my dinosaur eggs so I bought some plums because they are kind of similar. Unfortunately the ones here suck and there’s a reason they were so cheap. I ate a bunch anyway because no one else likes them and I felt bad for asking my mom to buy them. haha.

Before coming back to the motherland this year, I thought that my Uncle had sold the old family house, but it turns out they kept it and remodeled it to rent out to people. Crazies. It’s like five or six stories tall, which is the tallest house I’ve ever stayed at. haha. We did fireworks on his roof the last time we were there and my uncle’s son, who was a big butthead back then, got scared of those Roman Candle-type fireworks and shot them at the ground in our direction, causing some unwanted burnage. It’s okay, though, I couldn’t tell my burns and my hundreds of skeeter bite scars apart anyway. Luckily, he’s a lot nicer now and he’s coming to live with us soon. Oh my gauze!

At night there was a huge storm. Despite this fact, we walked over to this store my aunt shops at to buy some clothes. haha. I got a couple pairs of shorts and then we mosied on over to my aunt’s store so she and her worker peoples could close up.

The next day was not very eventful. My mom, aunt, cousin and I went to this marketplace where they sell food every morning. It’s pretty much a farmer’s market except it’s not some special novelty thing they do once a week. They go there every day, whereas we go grocery shopping like once a week. After that, we went to this supermarket to buy space bottles, otherwise known to us as unbreakable bottles. haha. That’s what I went there for but we ended up with other junks. hehe. We also went to the old house again so my uncle could do some bargaining with the people who did the remodeling. I don’t really understand business over here because a lot of it is shady. Later on, my mom wanted to look at curtains and we walked up and down this street looking for this fabric we used three years ago, but no one had it, of course.

Presently speaking, I have been diagnosed by the fam with a fever/flu. I think I broke my insides yesterday on the last day of our Chinese tour, resulting in today’s aches and pains. Cry.