Hong Kong was pretty uneventful. Contradicortory to what my mother has told me, my dad was NOT in Hong Kong. We spent the night there and ate dinner at a falsely advertised "veggie" restaurant. I had a phonecall from my sister too which was nice =)
We took a ferry the next morning to Zhongshan, where the office is that we had left our luggage. We spent ages catching up with Doris and letting isobel repack her suitcases (yes plural) before dashing off to get a bus to Guangzhou where... I met my dad!! He flew into Guangzhou for the night to see me. I was very happy to see him and gave him a huuuge hug in the hotel lobby.
The 3 of us enjoyed a nice dinner in the hotel -they finally had to chuck us out just before one.
I got up earlyish for breakfast before setting baout rearranging my bags so that I had the heaviest handluggage I could possibly have.
I sat in dad's room for roughly 45 mins having a good old chat about nothing in particular until we had to get in a taxi and go to the airport.
My suitcase was a little overweight but they didn;t charge me unlike Izzie who was carrying 64kg and got hit with a huge fine to go with it.
I spent most of the flight asleep because I had 3 seats to myself oh yes so it passed quickly. We arrived but Peter (an employee of Isobel's Dad) was late picking us up. The airport was chaso with people and media everywhere. Eventually we made it to a hotel. I realised that I had left the key to my suitcase padlock in Guangzhou and the hotel's solution to this problem was to hand me a rusty saw and a hammer. DIY!
We went out for dinner with Peter, his wife and some of their friends. It was a nice affair with lots of laughing and I was sort of able to follow some of the ocnversations in chinese which pleased me, not that I could join in!
Tomorrow is the day I fly home, i',m currently updating my memory card with Izzie's photos from when i was ohne Fotoapparat.
It's wierd the idea about coming home. I have apprehensions of course but i'm very much ;ooking forward to seeign so many people again. My time in China is very nearly at an end, and whilst I shall mourn it, I'm lookign forward to uni, and home comforts and friends so badly! My next entry... will be from ye olde England!
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