Regarding what I mentioned earlier about the Chinese tendency to do what they want when they want to....well it doesn't matter how long I live here, I will always laugh at it. The other day, the security guard where I work was stretching in the most bizarre manner, and in doing so displaying much of his anatomy. Clearly "self-conscious" is not a word that translates into Chinese. Though that was sort of cleared up earlier when I told you about the Chinese belly display.
Just yesterday I was touring Summer Palace, a well known tourist attraction and land mark in the outskirts of Beijing, when I saw the most peculiar thing. There was a man standing and flapping his arms. He rotated his body left and right, twisting back and forth in a repetitive motion. He was doing it when I approached him and he was doing it when I left. Perhaps I would have stayed to watch and timed him, had I not been losing the light. Not to worry, I captured it on video so if I can ever figure out how to load that, I'll share. I also captured on video, the view of the golden arches from the top of one of the Buddhist Temples. Great view... old ornately painted temples and a McDonalds! "Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain. For purple mountains Majesty, above the fruited plains. America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crowned thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!" Sorry couldn't help myself, they really drilled that into my head in elementary school. Anyway, afterwards I just had to eat at Pizza Hut. Don't get mad, a girl needs her western food every once in a while!
Please note: Pizza Hut in China is totally different from Pizza Hut in the US. (Don't get me started on the "salad bar")
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