wufenpu OR the gator nation is everywhere

i’ve been wanting shoes that fall in between the category of sneakers and dress shoes ever since i got here. i guess call them going out shoes. problem is, i haven’t really seen anything in my price range that i like (scratch that, i saw some last night, but everything was at least a size and a half too small).  so when i heard about wufenpu, a mecca for cheap clothes, where the people working at night markets selling cheap clothes go to buy stuff, i got excited. 

i read about how to get there, but the article i was reading straight out lied and took me 4 stops down the wrong metro line.  i found some wifi, went back to the mrt, got off at the RIGHT stop, and found the place. not very impressive looking, it’s like like 8 shops wide. like little stall shops, not like big shops. there aren’t even throngs of people all over the place. pretty disappointed.

but if there are shoes inside, i should still go look, i paid like 8 bucks just to get here between 3 mrt fares and the drink i had to buy to get access to wifi. so i walk inside, and within 30 second i’m completely lost, everything looks exactly the same, the corridors are twisty and turny and so long you can’t see the end of them. there are clothes stacked up 4 feet high in every stall and everything’s half as much as it is in the other stores i’ve seen.

the bad news is most things are ladies’ clothes, so i couldn’t buy them. or i could but people would look at me funny. either way not shoes.

it was a really interesting trip, i never found the shoes i was dreaming of, but i did buy a sweater so i don’t have to wear my brown jacket everyday. i love that thing but every day for 2 weeks gets a little repetitive. (ps aunt amy it’s the jacket you gave me, another thing to say thanks for =) this is just something else so i can end the parenthetical clause not on an emoticon, i just think it looks stupid and I’d rather add on more words)

the most exciting part of the trip was that there was not one but TWO gator shirts there, i didn’t see anything for any other u.s. college, but yeah, gators get two things. one of them was red. uf might not get money from that one.