Tidbits
Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…
A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles. I wanna play!
Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places. 2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.
A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…
An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies. I smell a lawsuit.
Will trade beer for Crumpler bags. Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…
Photos
Nanjing: Week 1
May 09, 2008, 7:27 pm
So it’s Friday night, we’ve officially been here a week now. It feels short and long at the same time. Classes seem like they are still starting, and I don’t think my speaking has improved any. (Reading, however, has certainly improved as I’ve been cramming hanzi every evening) But words are still not coming naturally, much like my Canto. The weather’s been a bit gray and drizzling, but it cooled the temperature outside a lot.
Food hunting has become less of an adventure. We even stocked up on cup noodles in case there are occasions where we want to just stay in our room for dinner. Even so, I’ll continue to post interesting food stuff as they come up.
Some interesting tidbits about shopping at Nanjing:
1. They don’t believe in waiting in line here at some places. Maybe it was because we were at the Chinese equivalent of a Walmart, but it’s like first come first served there. One time, we were getting fruits, and the way it works is that we have to bring our bag to a cashier to be weighted and tagged. We headed to the counter, there was no one being served. Mike was up at the counter, and this random guy came out of nowhere and threw his bag onto the weight while this other woman slipped herself in front of him. Same thing with the washrooms. While I was standing in the middle, people push pass me to go in deeper, or when a door open while they are walking by, they quickly slip in regardless of who is waiting in front of it. Though I’m thinking that if it really does come to actual pushing and shoving, those little Chinese ladies don’t stand a chance against me. 
2. While at the previously mentioned Chinese Walmart (called PT-Mart), we saw a fight, (well Mike did). For whatever reason, one of the store clerk shoved this male customer and then punched him in the face. No idea why, and the customer wasn’t even fighting back. I wasn’t actually able to see anything though, cause by the time I realize what was happening, everyone else at the store had rushed there to watch the fight. It was so ridiculous. Then we later saw an employee moping up the blood…
3. Ha, this is turning into “Adventures at PT-Mart”. So we were just walking down a food aisle when a piece of box cutter blade flew past us, narrowly missing Mike. Apparently a worker was cutting something and the tip snapped off and flew across the aisle.
4. Western food in China is rather expensive compared to regular Chinese food. Pizza Hut is considered high-end eating.
Finally, here are some photos of the group of students we are with: China Study Group.
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