There was an accident on the street; a huge group had gathered outside the bakery where I was getting dessert with Emily. We had split up from the boys so we decided to wait for them. We actually saw them in the huge group so we went outside to see what happened. There was a police car and an ambulance. Weaving through the group to get to the guys, I saw horrified stares and grim faces. Part of me didn't want to peer over the person in front of me, but I did anyways. And what I saw made my stomach fall.
Poor woman. Nobody saw what happened; it looked like she had either fallen off of her bike, or maybe she had gotten hit in a hit-an-run. Neither of those make sense though- there was traffic, the car wouldn't have been able to "get away," but it so much too gruesome for just a fallen motorist. When I was approaching, I heard Matt whisper, "No... don't look. She's... gone."
Right after, I left.
I've never seen death like that before.
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Actually being visually exposed to that sort of thing in person is fucking crazy. I feel like being in a foreign country would make it that much more shocking too.
Despite this gruesome example of the fragility of life, I hope your having a great fucking time. Did that electricity situation ever get cleared up? How are you going to pay for it, are you working?
The electricity situation isn't completely cleared up, but I managed to get some more. There's a whole confusing thing with Shandong about paying for rooms and being allowed to buy more electricty etc etc that I'm still confused on, but hopefully it'll all be cleared up by Monday. I'm not working :/ I could use some extra income though!
I saw someone die here, too. Well, I don't know if he actually died. But I walked out of my apartment & right on the sidewalk there was this guy who had had a motorcycle accident & was lying on his back with blood on his face & blood pooling out from under his head. There was a group of people surrounding him & even someone with a newscamera, && as I walked past, he locked eyes with me. I don't know what happened to him...
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