July 21st in China, Business cards and a day with Allie!

I woke up first ready to set my mind to creating something I had planned on making for a few months. You see my friend Nichole is getting married while I am away from the U.S. so I wanted to make her and Clay a video to play at their reception since I wont be there. That task took me quite a bit of time, but I think it really turned out great. :) After I made the video I got hold of my friend Allie, then her and I headed out to find a Kinkos where I could get some business cards made. Our cab driver was retarded and dropped us off about 10 blocks away from where we needed to be, so we had a little adventure trying to find the store. We just kept stopping people and showing them the paper with the Kinkos address written on it in Chinese. We eventually found the store and funny enough ran into 2 other people from our group. Sarah and Matt, apparently they were there to ship a package but found out you need your passport to do so. So the other girl that was with them took a cab back to the hotel to get their passports. One problem though, she couldn't find Sarah's passport anywhere. So they had been there for about an hour while the other girl searched for Sarah's passport when all of a sudden Sarah asked to see the package she was shipping, and when she opened the box (which was full of purses and clothes) she found her passport INSIDE one of the bags she was about to ship to the USA. Good thing they asked for her passport in the first place or she may have not realized that she mailed it to the US before it was too late. So after witnessing that little adventure I was able to get some business cards made. I had to use a template that KOMU has ready for reporters so it was an easy process. The guy just had to load the template from my zip drive and then add my information. It was really cheap too! I got 100 colored business cards for 100 Yuan, which is like 15 dollars in America. So that was cool, Allie ended up not getting her cards because they were going to charge her 20 USD just to design them. So instead she decided to just design them herself back at the hotel and come back to Kinkos another day when she was ready to print them. We grabbed a cab outside Kinkos and headed back toward campus. Before we went to the hotel however we stopped at the grocery store that is right next to the University. I was able to buy some pasta and pasta sauce, that I am going to try cooking in the water boiler in our hotel rooms. I also bought some peanut butter, a plate, a bowl and a fork so I was set! After the grocery store I came back to the room, put my stuff away and then Allie and I headed to a canteen on campus where we split an order of spring rolls and some Kung pao chicken. It was pretty great. After dinner I headed back to the room to search around to get some information about Olympic tickets and to send out a few e-mails and things online. I also watched the movie "Made of Honor" and then decided to walk to McDonalds for a late night snack. After I got back I watched part of "Sweet Home Alabama" and went to bed.