KTV

KTV are karaoke places and they are all over China! I guess it's the Chinese’s favorite form of entertainment. We went to the KTV two times: once for Leah’s Birthday on December 4th and another for a goodbye party during our last week. For Leah’s Birthday, it was just Whitney, Kiera, Alysa, Shayne, Leah, and I and we had a blast! Luckily there were actually a lot of American songs for us to sing to.
The second time we went to KTV we had all of us girls, but we also invited some of our friends: Jeff (our good Philippian friend), Superman (a fellow teacher), Summer (Jeff's best friend), and an old friend of Superman’s. It was actually hilarious having these guys along and listening to Chinese karaoke. 

Views of Bengbu

I just love my city Bengbu! Because it is a smaller city, there’s not really any tourism and so everything is just the good ol’ natural life of China. We’ve taken many pictures of Bengbu, but here are just a few places and experiences that I never want to forget. [word of caution: there’s pictures of dead animals below so I apologize if that grosses you out—but it was just apart of my city]

The bus that takes us everywhere.

Favorite DVD shop.

The street outside our DVD shop filled with seamstresses.

A mosque in our city.

Our favorite place to get supplies (if only we knew about this place sooner).

A man sleeping on the street.

A jade store where I bought a jade bracelet.

Pet stores.

Through this alleyway you will find…

…this, an outlet mall.

Grain and food outlet.

The meet street (aka the grossest street you will ever find). And yes, those are dogs.

Just a man walking with his donkey.

Chickens. They’re everywhere.

Two views of our favorite food street.

Fruit vendors, meat stand, and transportation. Best part of China was having fruit sold on every street.

A food street in the smaller city.

Piles of corn. Randomly one week these piles were everywhere!

Houses by the train tracks that we often walked by.

A city building or school?

Bengbu’s downtown and a sidewalk that is always filled with seniors playing games.

And a beautiful park in the middle of the city.