Frieda, Bort, and Gabe walk to the internet station...although frieda is a little frustrated because Bort really doesn't know where he is going...so she keeps asking him "Where are you going? Is this really the way?" Well...the finally find it after walking into a wrong building. After the talk on the internet for a while..they realize what time it is and decide that maybe they should probably leave and try to catch the train. So...they get to the train station and get on the train. Frieda looks around at how dirty the train is, and finds that she is not that excited for the next six hours. The train starts to leave and Gabe and Frieda are sitting by each other and Bort is sitting by some other chinese people, he makes friends fast and starts talking to them in mandarin while Frieda and Gabe fall asleep...well a few minutes after they fall asleep frieda hears..."Frieda, Frieda...my legs are very cold." She wakes up and turns her head and sees that Gabe is talking to her and he looks very cold too. She starts to laugh and realizes that she is also cold. So, she wakes up and talkes to Gabe a little more and he askes what time it is...she looks at her watch, suprised to find only an hour had gone by.
She looks around at the train and just watches people, she finds that chinese people are very dirty. What they don't need they throw on the floor of the train..she stands up and looks around only to see that happen in every car of the train....disqusting she thinks...how can you be soooo dirty? She tries to fall asleep again and wakes up about one hour later....she looks at her clock again astonished...that only one hour had passed. Frieda thinks to herself..."Wow, this is going to be a long six hours." They continue on their journey and come to a train stop...people get off and more people get on, the lady sitting across from frieda and Gabe also get off. Whohoo..."Hey Gabe, move over there and you won't be so cold." Gabe moves to the other side and a lady comes up to join them with her little boy. About two hours later, they leave and Gabe moves by Bort...and they try to fall asleep. A few minutes later a couple of people come sit by Frieda, well frieda wants to be left alone and so she doesn't talk to them...she then realizes that she is being mean and selfish and finally turn and smile at them. One person in particular come and sit by her and tries to talk to her in mandarin....but she does not understand and so she smiles at the man and nods her head. Frieda starts to eat crackers and looks over at the man and he is taking a picture of her...so frieda makes friends on the train from hunan-hubei. Even though she can not understand...action words speak alot.
They continue on their trip, what they thought would be a six hour trip turned out to be an 8.5 hour trip. They are all very grateful to get off the train when it stopped in hubei.