Yesterday was an extremely rainy day.... so I decided to say screw waiting on the bus.. and just grabbed a taxi that was driving past my apt. Headed towards work to pick up my schedule and give some of the teachers some of the fudge that I had finally successfully made.
Songyuan has very bad drains... pretty much none of them work (in most area's of the city). So the streets are just huge puddles but at this point they weren't too bad. But the taxi was definitely flying through them and I was like shit.... this guy is going to get in a reck.. and sure enough a car tried turning oddly infront of us.. and we hit his passenger side front corner. Of course taxis in China don't have seat belts.. and the ones that are there typically don't work.. so I course go flying into the damn windshield. Luckly I think we were only going about 40mph... so I just got a good knock on the head. I called Rolland(the guy at my school that takes care of all the foreigners) and got him out there..... I wasn't sure what to do when a taxi your in gets in a wreck. So we sat in the taxi in the middle of the road for a little over an hour waiting for all the shit to get settled. Then they took me to the hospital to make sure I was ok.
I really wish I would have been in the mood for taking pictures... but it really wasn't that impressive... it was just a bunch of big pretty much empty rooms with a few chairs and maybe a desk and a bench for the patients. The doctor decided that I should get some X-rays on my head and next (only things that really hurt) just to make sure I didn't like crack anything. So we waited for a little while for the taxi driver's mother to show up with the money to pay for the X-rays. Got the X-rays done... pretty nice little X-ray machine actually.... it was shaped similar to the MRI machines back in the states.
The X-rays came back fine.. and I just have a little bump on my head thats pretty read. Rolland was asking them to pay for me to go get a massage for my neck.. and at this point... it had been over 2 hours since the accident.. and I just wanted lunch (and was already late for a class i REALLY wanted to teach.... had to have chris take it over for me... was teaching the teachers). So I was like no... its fine.. I can handle getting my own massage (they cost like $8) lets just leave. The at this point the streets were completely flooded and you really needed a raft to get across.... so walking was out of the question. Most of the cars were still making it through though... so we got another taxi! And went a whole like 4 blocks.
The funny thing about this.. is that me and Chris had been talking to the teachers about car wrecks the other week.. and none of them had ever been in one.... and here I am in China for a little over 2 months and get one.... yay............lesson learned.. sit in the back seat of taxis!
Eating made me feel a lot better.. and I managed to make it to the last like 2 minutes of the teachers class.. enough time for them to ask me if I was ok and everything and for me to give them some fudge.
I rested in the school for a bit and then went to Songjiang to teach my one real class that day. Still not really feeling great.. but I managed to get into performance mode and got through the class and it went pretty well.
On my way home.. I decided (sense i don't have food at home.. besides instant noodle and fudge) that I would just go to Tanbo.. and have a nice relaxing meal there.. with no studying..........
Next post.......Where's LiLi?!
Holy Cow! I'm glad you are alright. Even if it was a little bump it had to be stressful. That's an interesting way to find out how the honor system works there. I could have sworn I told you to only get into GOOD trouble. That kind of trouble is BAD. Got it? Goood :) / Bad :( ?
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