Rain, Rain, Rain and a Tuk-Tuk!

Today it was raining again, I managed to stay dry on my way to work until trying to get a taxi! I kept trying to flag one down, originally with twenty minutes to spare before work, ending up with leaving the tube station at 5 to 9, in a Tuk-Tuk. I refused two offers of tuk-tuk rides whilst trying to flag a cab down, saying to myself as if i would ever go in one of them, i even managed to get a cab, but he decided he didnt want to read my chinese address and pretended he didnt understand it and drove off. it was another ten minutes after that i resigned myself to the Tuk-Tuk. A tuk-tuk if you havent seen one looks like this:

It was the most stressful journey ever, especially when we crossed the huge crossroads, just going whenever she fancied and wherever she fancied!! She then decided to charge me double the cab fare, and I couldn't argue because I don't know how! When I saw someone from work (which I was hoping I wouldn't, hopping out of the back of a tuk-tuk) he said I had definitely been overcharged, but they often do that to foreigners! Why be excessively mean, its already bad enough you cant converse or read! I sometimes realise that I'm acting like a deaf and mute person signalling and giving thumbs up to everyone here, there and everywhere, I realised on the subway today, when someone was telling me to take the spare seat and I was pointing and signalling like an air stewardess! Im going to have to learn at least some basic chinese!!

Joined the gym today, managed to get a membership for a month, so that's good and might help me work off all this chinese food everyone orders at lunch for me!!

xx