This Days Pictures.
This morning i went to tenimen sqaure. To get their i took a sort of trailer cart on the back of a motor cycle. It's like a tiny enclosed camper.
The driver was amazing. The ride took 20-30 minutes and I mean it when I say that he only stopped twice. One on at a red light as he figured out a way around the red light (the other red lights he didn't need to stop) the other when time he stopped was when he almost hit a kid. We were driving in the opposite lane of traffic at times.
Tineman square was pretty cool. Just a large area enclosed by huge walls. They can fit one million people in there.
I found a place to eat lunch. While just walking around the exterior of tinamen square I found a very small restaurant. They did not speak english, and they did not have a menu. Also no one was eatting so I could not point to anything. So I pointed to my mouth. She gave me a plate of 8-10 dumplings and they were the best dumplings I've ever had. It cost less then 50 cents, and it filled me up.
Then I walked around a park that's been around for hundreds of years that is pretty close to tienamen square. It's a very large park with lakes and exhibits to see. They had carnival rides and cotton candy. I was acually hoping to find cotton candy in china. It wasn't as good as the cotton candy here.
Then I met up with Will&Friends and we went bar hopping all night. Most of the night was a lot of drinking with mixed in converstaions now and then. I got to try a bunch of new drinks I've never heard of. The scary thing about the night was I knew if I let myself fall asleep I would not get up, thus missing my flight to hong kong in the morning.
During our drinking we met up with Johnathon, a co-worker of Robyn's. He's from Rochester so we were able to talk about how shitty that city is.
While he and I were walking the streets holding open containers of alchol we started talking about the freedoms such as that, that are allowed in china. It seems like there is so much that you can get away with in china. Such as diriving anyway that you want to, or walking around the streets drinking all night. But of course there are many freedoms in china that you don't have. the greatest example is simply how the chinese can not critzize their goverment.
I learned how forigeners in china arn't even allowed to live just anyway. The are supposed to live only in bulidings designated for forigeners (more expensive of course) but none of there peopele do. When the goverment raids you building you simpley don't answer the door.
Johnathon's favorite story about china vs. america is how in china you can walk the streets all night if you want. But after spending 1.5 years in china when johnathon went back home to visit the US he had jetlag. He walked the streets of his hometown at night (just walking, not drinking) and the cops hassled him for just walking.
Some of the drinking happened in this bar area where like half the people were forigeners. I met a guy from texas who teaches english in China and some aussi's who just came here to learn chinese. So it was a pretty fun area. They had irish pubs and everything.
it was fun to go around meeting forigners from all over and hearing their stories about china.