Coincidence
I don’t know how I managed to forget the two weird things that happened since I last posted.
First of all I was in the nearby McDonald’s yesterday and I bumped into a Canadian lady at the till. The conversation was fairly short (along the usual lines of “So, where are you from? Oh, really? Yes, I’m from XXX”) but it just happened this lady was from Canada (bells begin to ring) so I asked: “We met each other last year, didn’t we?”
And we did, too. I suppose it isn’t that bizarre as she’s teaching at a nearby school and there are only about three of four “Western” places to get food. Still, rather a strange encounter, if you ask me.
The second thing that happened was today at lunchtime. Xiaoxiao and I were being driven around by a Vivi driver and we asked him to pick the restaurant (if you can call them that in tourist areas). As it happens he picked exactly the same place as last year! No intervention, nothing. To make things even more weird he managed to go ahead and pick exactly the same room as last year! It was a sort of prolonged Deja-vu, I guess. They seemed to have cleaned the place up a bit since last year—there wasn’t so much damp and mould on the walls but it was still far from what I would consider a (an?) hygenic place to eat. So I didn’t.
Right, I think I’ve found my decryption stuff for the RAW files now and I’ve replied to all my emails so it is time for me to head back and give this stuff a go!
Tags: travel