Visit to Chung Gi

We had to get up at 7:15AM for an early breakfast, so as to take Dominique to the school. He wanted to finish his work here fast so he could hurry back to Peking as soon as possible. Later, he decided to take the 11:45 AM bus back to Tai Yuen, where he could catch a train or plane to Peking. Christine hurried to get him some take-out lunch, while he waited impatiently, he was afraid to miss his bus. Unfortunately when we got to the bus station, we only saw large crowd waiting but no bus in sight. Due to the bad weather, all the buses were caught in traffic jams on the road. We had no choice but to hire a private car for $400.00 to send him off. All expenses for him was paid by the school, so all he cared was to get out of here quickily and safely.
Christine then decided that we should spend the afternoon going to Chung Gi, to fetch some ordered books that got lost and wandering around in the delivering process. Traffic came to a complete stand still when we got to the market place. The road was packed with people coming to watch a road-side opera show. We had to wait more than half a hour before we could squeeze through. Chung Gi is a bigger city than Sin Yuen. This is where all the government offices are located. It is quite modern and clean, comparatively speaking. After circling around, we finally found the place that we were looking for. It was behind the main street, at some back alley. Outside that ugly old messy office, all kinds of parcels and packages or boxes were lying around. The guy at the desk cared less. He kept asking the same questions - who ordered the books, what's the name again etc, etc. He flipped his order book slowly. After I did not know how long, he finally found the order sheet. I thought it might take them forever to hunt down our books in all that disorder mess. To my surprise, they did it. Ha! lucky for us.
Afer mission was accomplished, we decided to look for a department store. For one reason, we all need to go to the restroom real bad. We also want to buy a better electric heater for the two teachers. After relieving ourselves in their dark, dirty yukky bathroom, we passed by the television displays. Christine said the teachers had been asking her for a TV for quite some time, so we may as well take the opportunity to take a look at the prices. They were looking at the ones that cost around Two thousand dollars. I found a smaller good brand one for about $850.00, so I showed it to Christine. Guess what the teacher commented,"It is too small." I was quite upset at that comment, because I feel we should distinguished what we need from what we want, and that we should spend the donors' money wisely but not lavishly. Christine finally decided to buy the small one, which she intend to put in the guest room later on. Actually that was good decision, because later we found out we hardly had enough room to put the TV in our car. Well, we also did buy a better electric heater. So we headed back to the school happily. However, the weather was still quite chilly and both Christine and I were still suffering from our cold.

Cold, cold, cold,
It's 9 degree below, I was told.
Run, run, run,
Nose kept running was not much fun.
Puff, puff, puff,
We bought a lot of stuffs.
Turn, turn, turn,
A good night sleep is what I yawn.