Sara cheats at Go Fish!

I do not!!!

Tyson is lying... i did not cheat, i did what anyone would have done.. i saw the card and then asked him if he had it.. not my fault i saw the card! .. This is what we played on the train ride.. go fish, and War, and we tried to play Speed but we really didn't remember how. So the train ride was boring.. and i felt a little claustrophobic. Good thing there was only 3 people in our bunk instead of 6 like there could have been. I have never felt so White in my life.. we were the only white people on the train except for the rich other white people who got the "soft" sleepers and who boared the train before anyone else and who were shunned in thier own little private "white space", while we mingled in with the locals.. who thought we were crazy.

We tried to get dinner in the dinning car and after waiting for 30 minutes and watching other people get served.. we realized that we were not going to get any food, so we returned to our bunk.. hungry.. good thing we had brought along crackers, and bananas. Which seems to be the staple for the next couple of hours until we reach our next destination. We got into Geermu around 12:00 midnight and went straight to the nearest hotel. The hotel was alright, it looked really good until we sat on the bed which was i think a peice of wood with a sheet.. or at least if felt like it.. but we did find an english speaking movie channel i could hardly believe it.. it was even a little hard for me to follow hearing so much english in one show.. our plan was to sleep, get up at 7:00 am go to the bus station and buy a ticket to Dunhaung which is an 8 hour bus ride... we tried to get tickets but were told we needed a special permit to ride the bus and had to go to the police station to get it. We had known this before hand, but it also said in the guide book that it was possible to get tickets with out the permit.. well its not.

So down to the police station we went, and the man was kind enough to tell us that we need a photocopy of our passports, and pictures of us. Well we didn't have either, so we went to find a photo place and a photocopier. We did this all, and succesfully got our permit. So now we got bus tickets to Duhaung that leaves at 6pm tonight.... and now we have 4.5 hours to kill before getting on the bus and arriving in Duhaung at approximently 2:00am. Doesn't travelling sound like fun? We both have never been on a sleeper bus before, we have the top sleeper.. and the bus has no toliet.. are you kidding me? Mom i shoud have brought those disposable underwear!

Geermu is really just an industy town.. with no other white people in it.. that we know of .. haven't seen one yet. Feeling a little out of place here.. I hope there are some travellers in Duhaung and onwards. I guess we will just have to play more go fish and crazy 8's (which i win at all the time..).

Oh yeh Chandra we are in an internet gaming place and im pretty sure there are some guys beside us who are playing WOW right now? Maybe they are your friends? Do you play against Chinese People? haha i got a kick out of that.

Well on to hoping that the time goes fast..
See you in Duhaung where Sand awaits us.

Sara and Tyson