We left Xi’an around 6 pm to travel back to the city. This would have put us back in Beijing at around 6:30 in the morning and we probably could have made it to work on time or close to on time, had the train arrived on time. What I have learned about travel though, is that nothing is on time, so I should simply assume that I will arrive at least a few hours late and I will stop complaining about it. When we got about half an hour from the station the train stopped and we sat on the tracks for about an hour.
I’ve yet to figure out why that happened, but it was beyond my control.
Zach and I had already informed the fine people at our office we wouldn’t be in on Monday, so I went shopping instead with my friend Jill. I’m going to have a really hard time when I go shopping at home after this experience because bargaining in the markets has taught me that it’s perfectly acceptable to be as rude as possible to the salespeople. If I had encountered customers like me in my time at the Gap, I might have quit.
In any case, my day at the market was not bad at all, since I cleaned up and only spent about $100. And the day ended at this adorable Italian Restaurant called Annie’s that Jill and I stumbled upon after our trip to another market.
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