First night at the Qufu Shaolin school

Still fuming, we washed the shelves of the book case and arranged our clothes. The place was so dusty it was beyond the joke. Our beds had 5cm thick mattresses and some kind of shitty cover and horrible, dirty looking pillows. For cover, we had one bath-towel each! We couldn't stop making jokes like who's going to get the spider web on his bed first.. Exhausted and emotionally drained we closed the lights and passed out by 10@m to be woken up at 2am by torrential rain and thunder. It went all night, sometimes so strong I had images of mudslides tossing our little hut in the lake..the rain continued in the morning..insistant, loud bells summon us for meals. Zam is breakfast - chinese cakes, hot water and sweet soya paowder (looks disgusting but tastes surprisingly OK). After as brief a visit to the dreaded toilets, hands clapping, tiptoeing over the dirty waters, we got a taxi and drove to Qufu town.