
Day 14: I felt a bit scammed.
We had our IS today. Our lecturer for China Culture, Ms Edith Shi, is humorous. She kept asking questions in a rather high tone.
She brought us to a shopping centre, Hua Luo Li Shopping Mall, which is 1 street away from WIT. It is just like another Bugis street. They have many stores in it but are all separated by concrete walls and fully air-conditioned. I wondered if the coolness in the mall is from the wind or the machine.
So, Baohui, Carmen and I do our first haircut in China. I wasn’t persuaded by the hairdresser no. 24 to do my hair initially. However after several persuasions for 30 minutes and after I kept saying “Let me think first,” I accepted his offer after I heard that Carmen and Baohui are doing the treatment.
I wasn’t that thrill about temporary straightening (which later I find out it is a permanent straightening treatmen) my hair because it is very expensive, costing about RMB 288. I asked a lot of questions about the treatment. The hairdresser exchanged with hairdresser no.36 for straightening my hair. (I think the salon named their entire hairdressers with numbers)
Unhappiness is all written on my face when many strokes of my hair get to be twisted and turned hair with the aluminum foil. ‘My eyebrows are in Pain, my nervous system is in pain, and my hair is in pain’ my unstoppable complains showed out silently when I need to walk up and down the stairs for washing hair for 3 times. I was about to cry when Hairdresser no.36 take out the aluminum foil after heating them. It is just too much pain to bear.
The worst part of the day came when I heard that I can’t wash my hair for 3 days, I exclaimed in the washing section of the salon. How can I not washing my hair for 3 days? I can’t even stand not to wash my hair in cruise for 1 day, 3 days?!
I’m not going to survive through this.