Went shopping at the new Bi Yi Bi today. Shopping in China (without knowing any Chinese) is both a delight and a challenge. I am not sure if the clerks are glad to see me because they think I am going to spend lots of money being a foreigner, or glad to see me go so they can stop having to try to understand what I want to know from pointed-to-words in my phrase book and gestures.
While choosing food today, I picked up a little girl who was fascinated with me or seeing what I was buying, not sure which, maybe both. She followed me all over the food section of the store, through check out, and out to the door where she watched me pack my stuff in the little rolling cart I bought in the store. Don't have a clue where her parents were. Got my camera out to take her picture and suddenly I have two little girls (the third one did not make it in time to get in the picture)!
Like I said, a delight and a challenge.
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