We are in a “landing city” for the maina purpose of learning language.  This city has tons of resources and personnel to help us learn the language well and much more quickly, but it ALSO has about 14 million people.  Whew.  

Another new thing is walking everywhere or using public transportation.  It’s not bad, and we kind of like not having the car and the maintenance/gas/car washes We should’ve checked the bus route to see what bus we needed to take to get to IKEA.  Instead, we just asked a friend who has done it! Seemed easier. . . at the time  

We got on Bus #83 like our friend said to do.  It was supposed to be a straight shot and only about a 30 minute ride. We all 5 piled on, and the gracious Chinese give the kids and I their seats.  David is tracking our route on his phone and noticed the bus isn’t quite going the most “direct route.” But hey, we haven’t done this before, so maybe it’s right? After 40 minutes, the bus is about empty and the driver stops.  End of route.  We must get off.  We are not at IKEA.  We aren’t really near much of anything.  It appeared to be on the outskirts of town or something.  David calls our friend to make sure she meant Bus #83 and not Bus #84.  She replied, “Maybe it WAS 84! I’m so sorry!” No worries.  We are seeing lots of city that we probably never would have seen right?