Wednesday 13th October
Ok, I may have been a little premature in my praise of the wonderful soup we had. I have been sick as a dog all day today and to make matters worse we will soon be having to climb aboard a train to Chengdu and endure their far less than sanitary public conveniences. Not an overly pleasant prospect to say the least, still it could be worse I guess, i could be sharing with underwear guy again.
Wednesday 13th October (a little bit later)
Well we made the train and thus far it appears to be devoid of any fat blokes, but the night is young and who knows what wonders await us. This train seems to be better than the last one too, not in the toilet department alas but in the overall carriage. We still have six beds in our section but this time they only have partition walls between them making the whole carriage more airy. One obvious downside to this is of course a complete and utter lack of privacy but if people want to watch the fat white man sleep then that's fine by me. I will try my best to squeeze out the English national anthem for them too if I can because this seems somewhat fitting.
Other than that it's much the same as any other train so instead of boring you any more I intend to fill in the space with a little tidbit.
I recently downloaded a basic mandarin app that I have been using with a vengeance, it allows me to repeat "this tastes very good" over and over again until my hearts content (which as it turns out is a very very long time indeed).
It also allows me to say the great phrase "can you give me a photo" which I thoroughly intend to try out soon just to see what happens, I will have to pick my targets carefully though as the last thing I want is glossy's of underwear guy.
The app isn't without its limitations though, for example one glaringly obvious omission is the phrase "thank you" which has forced us to continue shouting it out slowly in English T-H-A-N-K-E-E-Y-O-U whilst maintaining a stupidly innate grin on our faces.
Ok I think that's enough for today take care all!
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