Daily life is always interesting here, we laugh a lot... both at ourselves and at some of the inexplicable sights we behold. In the humor category: trying to buy a hot dog at a tea shop while being serenaded by a violin playing punk college student, seeing dozens of badly dressed pets (the chinese seem to love to dress their dogs- i see few unclothed ones), finding locals asleep in beds/on couches in a large furniture store, running across an intersection with a friend still unfamiliar with her high heeled boots (resulting in flailing arms and much screaming- i would gladly pay for that traffic cam footage....), seeing a middle age couple in full pajama get up (w/ house slippers even!) out in a fancy desert shop in the evening, paying just over a dollar to have a woman on a street corner nail tire tread to my badly worn down boot heels (it took courage to let her go at my Steve Maddens with while i sat freezing on the curb, looking on with trepidation), eating pig tongue soup with unidentifiable branches protruding from the pot, and of course reading all kinds of badly worded signs.
