Day Five Part One: I’ve been here for weeks

(Part one and two were written together, but are too long to post together. Here is the link for part two.) My group of friends and I decided that today definitely felt like week five, as opposed to day five. I am already in my third town, a small city of three million (yes, in China that is small) called Lanzhou. It is in the middle of the China, and the Yellow River runs directly…