Saturday

Today I went to bank to switch my currency in my account but
found out you can't do that on weekends. Fortunately I learned that
at certain ATMs my US Debit card will allow me to withdraw RMB. Then
my roommate and a friend of his went to this indoor clothing market.
It is very cramped, but a very big building with all these little
partitions which are little "shops". He told me that everything was
fake or imitation, I saw a lot of name brands. I think they are the
rejects from the factories here. But I think some of that stuff could
be original. Who knows, it was all very cheap and prices were
negotiable. I didn't buy anything though. It was interesting though.
Later we went to the hair salon/ massage partner. My roommates
and one of their friends got massages and I got a haircut. I tried to
gesture what I wanted, I ended up only getting a little bit shaved
off the side but oh well, it was $2.50. After that, my friends were
all still getting a massage, the girls at the saloon ushered me into
that room while every single worker there laughed at me because I
still had my Chinese nametag on my shirt from class the other day. So
I left that room and went back to talk to the hairdress because he
had a Learning English book. We sat down and went through the book,
he would point to words and I would pronounce them and he would
pronounce the Chinese translation. This was late at night so business
was slow and all of the workers there would sit with us for a bit and
laugh at us trying to pronounce things and try their hand at it as
well. He was not very good at pronouncing English words but he had
one or two assistants who were pretty good. So we did that for about
1or 2 hours and I am going back there at 9pm tomorrow to talk some more.
Tomorrow I will also meet my language partner with WorldLink.
This will be a Chinese person trying to learn English.
I also bought the AC/DC Back in Black CD for wu(5) kuai (62
cents). Stuff here is cheap.