ང་རང་མི་གཞན་དང་ཁ་རྩོད་ཚབས་ཆེན་ཤོར་མྱོང་མེད། གང་ཡིན་ཟེར་ན། མི་གཞན་དང་བསམ་ཚུལ་མ་མཐུན་དུས་ག་འདྲ་བཤད་དགོས་མིན་ངས་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ཡོད། དེ་རིང་ཁྱེད་ཚོ་སྟབས་ལེགས་སོང་། ངས་ཁྱེད་ཚོར་མི་གཞན་དང་ཁ་རྩོད་མི་ཤོར་བའི་ལན་འདེབས་ཡག་པོ་ཞིག་བཤད་ཀྱི་ཡིན། གལ་སྲིད་མི་ཞིག་གིས་གླེན་གཏམ་ཞིག་བཤད་སོང་ན། ངས་ཁོ་ལ་འདི་ལྟར་བཤད་ཀྱི་ཡོད། “ཨོ། དེ་འདྲ་རེད་དམ། ང་ནི་དེ་ལྟར་མི་བསམ་གི ཕལ་ཆེར་ང་ཚོ་སྔོན་མ་ནས་ཉམས་མྱོང་མི་འདྲ་བ་ཡོད་པས་རེད།” ལྟོས་དང་། འདི་ལྟར་བཤད་ན་དངོས་གནས་ཕན་གྱི་རེད། ཁྱེད་ཚོས་ཀྱང་རྗེས་མ་ཚོད་ལྟ་བྱོས། ཨོ། ད་དུང་། “ཉམས་མྱོང་” ཟེར་བའི་ཚབ་ཏུ་“སློབ་གསོ་” ཡང་ན་“ཆེན་པོ་ཆགས་སྟངས་” ཞེས་བཤད་ཀྱང་འགྲིག་གི་རེད། I never seem to get into serious arguments because I know how to disagree with people. And today's your lucky day—I'm going to tell you one of my best animosity-killing comebacks! When someone says something stupid, I say, "Interesting. I have different thoughts— probably because of my past experiences." Boom! It works— try it next time. Oh, and instead of experiences, you can say something else like education or upbringing.

Hey guys, guess what! At the beginning of October, I accidentally renewed my annual DDM VIP + PIRF VIP subscription TWICE🤣—I was so worried I wouldn't get the discount! It’s true—just ask @Gulya Karimova ! But as you know, everyone here really goes above and beyond for us. Naturally, she refunded the second payment. 🙏 Mind you, I didn't reach out to Coach @Shane Peterson about it—I’m a bit wary, since he’s always saying "SNL DTTH"!🤣😅🤣 Just kidding,😉 of course—CS is fantastic! 💖 I know him for so loooong ! he’s so looooyal! ✨ A TRUE STORY : Queen Evelyne never lies trust that! 💯

On October 3rd, Yupeng and I made a sudden decision to drive to Laibin, Guangxi for a hiking trip. Before the National Day holiday, we had originally planned to visit Liaoning or Hebei in the north to experience a different kind of autumn scenery. Northern autumns are absolutely gorgeous, but because we looked into booking flight tickets too late, prices had spiked. The destinations we wanted to visit were quite expensive, the flight distances were long, and considering our timeframe, a visit would have felt rushed—we wouldn't have had the chance to truly understand the local culture, history, cuisine, fun attractions, or traditional handicrafts. My core goal for this holiday was simply to get close to nature until October 3rd, so at noon that day, we decided to drive to Laibin ourselves. After packing our bags, we hit the road and bought our ferry tickets on the drive over. I called the Haikou Xintang Port Authority and was told we needed to queue up at the port an hour in advance. Arriving around 3:10 PM, we couldn't make the 3:30 PM sailing, so we booked the 4:30 PM ticket instead. Driving along the highway, we arrived at the port right on time. Passengers and vehicles were separated for boarding; after the car went through security, I got out with my ID and went upstairs to board, while Yupeng drove the car onto the ship and parked it before meeting me in the passenger cabin. Ticket checking for passengers started around 3:45 PM, leaving us with a 40-minute wait in the boarding lounge. I browsed the shops, bought a bubble tea at KFC, and finished it right as boarding began. Once aboard, we waited another 20 to 30 minutes before setting sail at 4:40 PM. After a 1.5-hour voyage across the sea, we reached Xuwen Port and exited around 6:30 PM, catching a beautiful sunset with vibrant twilight clouds. From there, we pressed on toward Zhanjiang. The highway was exceptionally wide, flat, smooth to drive on, highly efficient, well-designed, and brightly lit. In Zhanjiang, we ate at a barbecue place called Qin Yi that Yupeng had found on Xiaohongshu—the food was quite good, and the fried rice noodles and oysters were fantastic. I also tried the local herbal tea, but it was so bitter that I gave up halfway, though the locals were gathered around drinking it enthusiastically. It was so different from back home, though Guangdong herbal tea is indeed famous. Afterwards, we walked around the surrounding local market. The residents there don't seem particularly wealthy, and the general hygiene standard was mediocre or not very clean, reflecting a modest living standard.

Wishing all our Chinese friends and students a wonderful National Day and a happy holiday! Enjoy the time with your family and friends, take a break, have some fun—and of course, keep practicing your English! 😉💪 Happy National Day! 🇨🇳🎊 ALL TOGETHER. ONE MISSION! 🌎

"𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿, 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻!" 😂