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Weather of today:
-Day: 30 degrees and cloudy.
- Night: 22 degrees
Sentence of today:
You were tonight's host, but I'll pay the bill.
你请客, 我买单。Nǐqǐngkè, wǒ mǎidān。
Today's - Good to know:
A favourite Chinese sport is fighting over the bill in restaurants. It's considered polite to offer to pay the bill once or even twice, even if you're clearly the guest. A protest along the following lines may be made loudly, to show sincerity, even when it's a bluff.
Todays tip:
If you have trouble using the chopsticks, try holding them a bit further up, and relax in your hand.
Dish of today:
粉丝肥牛 (Delicious Rice noodles with beef)
Today's Historical fact:
c1000: The major premodern inventions - paper, printing, gunpowder, compass - are commonly used in China. The economy begins to commercialise and create a countrywide market system.
Book of today:
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Lu Xun)
Astonishing tales from the father of modern Chinese fiction.
My day:
Jiaojiao made breakfast for me today. We both slept very long.
Today we went to the famous Silk Market, where you can buy clothes, shoes, bags, silk, pearls, chopsticks, and a lot of other things. I really like this place, and you can spend hours walking around inside this big mall. Bargain hard when you buy something is a most. They always start at 4 or 5 times the price you end up paying. Today I bought a pair of shoes, two bags, some bowls, a t-shirt, chopsticks, postcards and a set of mah-jong.
After spending some hours in here, we went to Sanlitun, which is not so fare from there. It's the more modern district in Beijing, with new nice architecture buildings. Its also here you find all the original brand stores, a lot of bars and more expensive restaurants. After spending some times at Yashow Clothing Market, another Mall similar to the Silk Market. Actually here I bought the Mah-jong set and the rice bowls, we had a rest at a café on the street, enjoying a nice cold beer. Xiaoxiao and a colleague of hers join us not much time after. Sweet girls. And both speaks English pretty good. They shortly showed me a bit around the area before we went to a elegant more expensive restaurant called 上海小南国。 The food was so tasty, one of the best meals I have ever had, and the service was also amazing. Will defiantly go back to that place next time I'm in Beijing. I asked Xiaoxiao about her salary. She has a university degree and works in a government owned company and earn about 7000 RMB per month. Then she also get a place to live and medical care for free. But the company are very strict on for example who they date, they get fired if they get a foreign boyfriend, which I was really surprised about. They are also very strict about the one child policy. If they had a sister or brother, they wouldn't be hired, and they are also only aloud to have one child themselves.
When we got home, we all ate some watermelon together, which we get almost every evening. I told Xiaoxiao and Jiaojiao I wanted to by the Big Bang Theory box, and they told me I could get one really cheap online in China. But then we looked through her cousins extern hard disc (You Mama and Deng Baba's son) and he had season 1-4. I told Xiaoxiao, I really like your cousin now. And she just laughed. He also had a lot of movies and open courses lectures I could copy to my Mac. This family is awesome!
Bedtime! Goodnight!
Ps: I miss you Vince!
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