little things that make me happy

there are a lot of things here that make me miss home. like the automatic opening doors that start just a little bit later than in the u.s., so you have to stop right in front on them for a second. i have a lifetime of expecting that door to open in time for me to get there, and i’ve walked into more than one door when i wasn’t paying attention.  but for every little thing like that, there are 3 that make me happy and think “why haven’t we done that?”  so below are some of the little things that have made my day while i’ve been  here.

 

they have AMAZING bakeries here, they’re where i eat breakfast most days. they sell everything from little weird donuts to rolls to sandwiches to stuff i have no idea what it is but it’s delicious. thing is i can’t read chinese so everyday i have no idea what i’m getting, and it’s like a big surprise if that roll i got is going to full of tapioca or something.

 

 

there are temples and crazy things every few blocks. i guess this would be where my roomie would work if he was a real monk. (side note he smells terrible and you can smell our room from down the hall, i have to open the window everyday when he’s gone) but yeah the temples and streets are really interesting.

 

 

they take pride in their fountains here. this one is a memorial to people from something, that’s all i could read. inside,there’s like a bottomless well that bubbles up water. there are hexagonal bricks in a little river to get to the middle of the fountain, the whole thing is just really cool. it was in a park that’s kinda near my hostel (like a 10 minute walk) i wanted to get a picture that didn’t have people in it, but this guy walked REALLY slowly and another big group was on it’s way to check out the inside, lesser of two evils.

 

 

 

i pass this dog every day and he just makes me happy. there are dogs all over the place. this is the only dog i see who isn’t wearing a sweater, i’ve seen wild dogs wearing little hoodies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

i went into some little restaurant because i got lost and needed wifi to find my way to this cheap clothing mecca called wufenpu (turns out the first place i got directions from just straight up LIED and told me to get off at a metro station on the other side of town). i ordered the cheapest thing on the menu, a bailey’s iced chocolate (it was like 4 USD, kinda pricey for things over here). it was art.

 

 

 

 

Cool statues all over the place, this was outside what i think is a library, maybe a something else.