Lights out

Yesterday I left my apartment at around five in the afternoon to go downtown and shop for clothes. I bought a few things, ate dinner, and then took a bus back to the old campus. When I got off, things seemed a little strange but I wasn't sure exactly what it was. I started to walk in the direction that I thought was towards the apartment until I realized that not only was I going the wrong way, but also that none of the buildings on that street had power. I asked someone for directions and eventually arrived back at the apartment. I had walked for about fifteen minutes and still all of the buildings were without power, including our apartment. I put down some of my things in my apartment and went back outside to buy candles. The man on duty at the gate told me how to say "candle" in Chinese ("la zhu") and I went down the street towards some shops that sell household supplies. The first store I went into had already sold out of candles but the second one still had four left. I bought three of them before realizing that I had no candle holders. I asked the shopkeeper but he said they didn't have any. He did, however, have a solution.


After I got back, I lit a couple candles and then went to see what Bleisha was doing. Having the power cut off was perfect for Halloween night so we tried to scare Laura. Bleisha called her and told her to come up to her room to hang out. When Laura got to the top of the stairs I jumped out and yelled her name, but Laura had already seen me hiding so the attempt failed. Afterwords we hung out at Bleisha's for a while. Then I went back to my room and just as I was getting into bed the power came back on. I still don't know what caused it.