Friday, September 12, 2008

China Journal 2008-09-07, 6:28PM

Good day so far! After a crappy sleep, woke up at least twenty times, I got up and Rolf and I went to the internet café. Also bought a keychain. Hey, the keychain is a big thing for me! I’ve been planning on buying one for two days now. We came back and wasted time for a while. We got hungry ( 饿了Uh le) 安定bought some noodles and found hot water. With this newly acquired boiling water we had big plans for tea. After killing more time I found myself falling asleep so we went to market. On the way a friendly yet pushy girl tried to sell us make-up and something about our feet.. it was hard to understand her because she spoke excellent Chinese. We spent a good forty-five minutes buying noodles and snacks along with some tea and, very important, toilet paper. Also bought a knife for the watermelon we purchased on the side of the road on the way back. Delicious, by the way. This may sound boring to you but there is actually so much going on that I can’t really describe it all. Everything is different. Here, I’ll try a bit. People walk in the middle of the road and drivers honk to get through when off the main road-ways. There is garbage all over. It doesn’t seem like anyone worries about littering. I saw a window level with the ground that had broken glass spread in front of it for security. It turns out I suck at haggling. I paid full price, 14 yuan, for a watermelon. That’s a bit over two bucks. I’ll think of more later. Eda’s going to be by soon to take us to a park to see birds or something.

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