Day Two
The day started for me by a knock on my door as I
was getting ready for breakfast. We were told breakfast was at 8, but Lou
started knocking at our door at 7:30 asking if we were ready. I made him wait,
knowing that if I went out chances were I would not be returning to my room. I
wasn’t able to do my foundation or eye makeup (or nail polish!), but I did take
lip gloss with me. We had breakfast, and Lou explained to us that though we
were supposed to have breakfast at 8, it would have been better for us to be up
at 7:30.
We went to the place they worked and waited. We
weren't sure what for, but then they loaded us into a van and took us somewhere
else- a real estate fair. We waited in line during the opening, having our
pictures taken (representing their company), and we sat around and didn't do
much. But we did attract attention, which was good. We had many visitors and
people interested in us.
We then went to lunch, which was pigeon. It was
delicious. They also had the cicadas that mom didn't want to eat- I had many
more than I did last time. :) I'd like to try and learn to cook them when I go
home.
At this lunch Adam showed off his power drinking.
It's culture to drink, and it's very rude to not drink. As a woman, you are
considered to be not a big drinker, but you should still try and drink. Unless
you have an allergy or are pregnant, you should be ingesting alcohol. There was
a toast to me and I finished my class- before the leader did. He was surprised,
and gave me a thumbs up. I thanked him, but he was honestly surprised- most women
here don't drink, and when they do they don't drink as much as a man.
Ann had a little too much to drink- between alcohol
and the heat, she was feeling faint. However, they took us to a store where
there were many different kinds of furniture. I kept thinking how amusing it
was, that this furniture would be shipped to the states and sold for almost
three times the price, but we moved on quickly. I used the toilet in this
building- in a cleaning closet, with no flusher and no lock on the door.
This was not the worst toilet I've been in.
After the store we were sent back home to relax,
and so I did. I put on my makeup this time, thinking we'd go back to the fair
to advertise.
However, we did not.
At 5 we went back to the store and had dinner with
a man we named Julius (his Chinese name meant King, Adam wanted a cool name and
Ann came up with it and I provided the history, as I would do with all
names).
Then we went to a Chinese trapeze act. It was
amazing. It was often without nets; only one act had no net. It used children
who were 8 to 10. It was underwater.
It was
underwater.
It was underwater.
Okay, so it wasn’t completely underwater, but there
were many acts that used it, such as this first one. Please watch the videos
and enjoy parts of what I saw.
http://youtu.be/Xv7YcbC_Jl8
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