Okay, so by winter I don't mean snow, I mean Christmas decorations have gone haywire. The following pictures are from Christmas shops- it looks as if I have been swallowed into Santa's workshop. Pretty interesting considering where I am.
The picture with the Chinese girl ( I can't seem to get it to upload right now) is one that I took after she took a picture of Lisa in her shop.
Since we sometimes get our picture taking with random strangers, I fought back his time! Haha. Lisa was walking around the store and she, like many others, was shy and was trying to sneak a photo of Lisa while she wasn't looking. I noticed this and got Lisa to pose for her. This of course, only caused several other people to come over, whip out their phones and snap off pictures of us.
So then I suddenly pulled out my camera from my pocket and got a photo of her with Lisa.
The prices in the store were crazy! You really do have to bargain. Lisa the other day was shopping for Christmas gifts and was trying to tell the woman in Chinese that she is a teacher who lives in China. We are not the rich Americans that they think we are. We are getting paid in RMB, so when we see the price, we think of it in dollars, not the 1/7th that tourists would do.
However, the woman wouldn't budge and answered by saying: "Chinese_ this is the price; American_ this is the price; Japanese, and on and on. Haha.
Therefore.. if the woman are not going to budge with their bargaining prices.. we must pull out the big guns... literally. Hahah!
The next picture is us with a friend in a candy shop arm wrestling the manager for a lower price. It was really funny too, because the two of them would go back and forth changing the price on the paper when the other wasn't looking! We were ordering a bunch of candy for an upcoming Christmas party, and so we needed a lot and wanted a good price.
Lisa was estactic also, because we finally realized that you can just take free samples of the candy. I should have realized this a long time ago when I saw people freely eating out of a big vat of sunflower seeds. I bought some and then didn't like them as much because they were not flavored. However, if you want nuts, or candy, you can just open one up and try it. They don't mind.
The employees were even walking up to us and having us try different ones. So once we got comfortable with this, we just moseed around and tried different one. Then when we were going to buy a small bag of some that we liked, they gave it to us for free! Awesome!
I am enjoying being able to share with my students more about Christmas and listen to some Christmas carols and do different games and activities. I can't believe that it is coming up so soon! We hope that all of you have a wonderful Christmas as well! We will miss you all as well this Christmas year!
Love, -Shane and Lisa and Benny
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