Vanguard

Today after class, Sara, Katie and I decided to go on an adventure.  We had heard about this big grocery store called Vanguard.  We decided that we were going to go and check it out!  We took the Kaiyin bus and got off at Vanguard.  The store was huge!  There were four floors and it had everything!  Food, home appliances, electronics, and more.  It was a clean store too which made me happy!  We bought juice, banana bread, garbage bags, and snicker bars.  Snickers are the only chocolate bar that you can find here.  Snickers and dove chocolate.  I am glad that I like snickers so much!  When we were done shopping we realized that we didn't know what bus stop we needed to go to.  We saw a bus stop across the street and figured it might be the right one.  As we crossed the street we saw a vendor selling pineapple.  It looked wonderful!  We asked how much, and she said 2 yuan!  Katie and I decided to each buy a piece.  It tasted as good as it looked!  I was one happy camper.  I just hope I don't get sick from it.  It was the first street food that we have bought.  We went to the bus stop and waited for a long time.  The Kaiyin bus had not come yet and that was the only bus we knew about.  We soon realized that we needed some help.  I asked a women if she spoke English, and of course she said something back in Chinese.  We said, "We need to go to Kaiyin."  She spoke Chinese again and we figured she couldn't help us.  About five minutes later, the woman we had previously talked to, got on Bus Number 6 and started yelling at us out the window.  She yelled, "Kaiyin! Kaiyin!"  And was waving for us to come with her.  Sara, Katie and I looked at one another and jumped on the bus.  Before we knew it, the whole bus was trying to get us to Kaiyin.  Everyone was looking at us and speaking Chinese.  We knew the Kaiyin bus route, and Bus Number 6 was headed in the right direction.  All of a sudden, the bus took a drastic turn and went off the freeway into a little town.  I was crossing my fingers hoping that they were going to get us back to the school.  The woman we had talked to at the bus stop, got off the bus and told us to stay with another older woman.  We stayed with her and eventually she got off and motioned us to follow.  We were in the middle of some little town and we had no idea where we were.  We don't speak any Chinese and she doesn't speak in English.  We followed her for about five minutes and she lead us to an apartment building complex that we recognized.  It is a stop on the Kaiyin bus route.  We said xie xie (thank you in Chinese) and we went our separate ways.  We were able to catch the Kaiyin bus and make it back to the school.  It was amazing for me to see how lucky we were to be able to get home.  It was pure luck that a woman on the bus knew what Kaiyin was.  We were extremely blessed.