Pot is Hot.

So we had a bit of a lie in today as Ibby was going to come visit with her brother at 12am. When she came, her brother helped sort the flat out by cleaning out the kitchen with Ibby, as well as her room. In the mean time, Charlotte, Tanya and I went out to the bank as we needed to change our mobile numbers to our bank account from the landlady's to or own, since we got Chinese numbers yesterday.

Unsurprisingly, it took us about an hour to do since we had to wait to be called up at the desk for about 40minutes, and then the bank lady took forever scanning and printing stuff. We were successful in the end though.

After the bank we decided to go to McDonald's again as we had researched how to say the names of the food we wanted before hand. So I can now order a Filet-o-Fish burger, french fries, and a vanilla milkshake.  Well actually, they didn't have any vanilla milkshake so I ended up with a mango yoghurt vanilla ice drink or something like that in the end.

We then hung around in the apartment for a few hours. Ibby and her brother went back to the hostel - she confirmed her place in the apartment as the third person who would pay rent to live there. And then Beth came at 20:00 from Hong Kong International Airport after having spent two weeks in the Guangzhou area.

We decided to treat ourselves to hot pot for dinner since we hadn't really eaten proper food since we had arrived, plus all our friends had arrived. We were going to invite Dominic and Adam, but Dominic doesn't yet have a Chinese number, and Adam wasn't replying to his messages (although we figured out later on that it was because today was his last day of his internship).

We had a bit of a time trying to communicate with the waiters in our bad Chinese, but the waiters and waitresses were really nice and helpful. We mentioned that we had two vegetarians with us, and so they helped point out and recommend food for us to try. They were really friendly and after we had had our meal (only 272yuan in total), they all came rushing to us as were about to get the lift and leave, asking if they could have pictures with us, which we then ended up having a 10minute photo session. They even gave us an incense bag as a present.