Thankfully, another woman gave me three Chinese yuan (CNY), or 50 cents, which enabled me to buy the train ticket. I paid her back on WeChat Pay.
With a train ticket in hand, I went through security about an hour before the train departed. In security, one of the security guards was trying to communicate with me, but I did not understand him and became very frustrated. Yet, a student from my university helped me to translate and told me that he was asking if I lost my wallet. Confident that I had it in my backpack, we made it through security and waited for our train. Naturally, I checked to see if I had my wallet before we departed. I discovered that it was lost. Fortunately, the same student took me to the security guard, who directed us to retrieve my wallet. I was relieved.
Ten minutes before the train departed, I walked upstairs to the platform from which the train would board with the fellow student from my university. Once we boarded the train, I got a glimpse of China's high population due to how crowded it was. Indeed, the seats inside the train quickly filled up and I sat alongside others for the hour it took to reach Guangzhou, while others stood. Although the ride may have been a bit uncomfortable, it got me to Guangzhou in the fastest and cheapest way.
When we reached Guangzhou, the student from my university downloaded different applications on my phone to help me use the metro system and the public bus system in Guangzhou. Following the use of WeChat Pay on my phone, I scanned my phone to get into and pay for the metro system. There were more people inside the metros than I have ever previously experienced.
