what happens when 630,000 people stop being polite....

...and start getting real? Well, it seems as though this trip is all about finding the "realness" of china. We decided to stay another night in guilin, and possibly more. This town is absolutely lovely, and the people are the nicest that I have EVER met. We started the day by going shopping (again). Woods kept trying to find shirts his size, but they were all too big. He had to buy a kids small. Woods, also almost got run over by a scooter lady because he was looking at a shirt across the street that was totally "cutez0r." (If you know that term, then you are a nerd!) It seems like people are surprised that we speak Chinese when they find out that we are Americans. We are kind of a novelty here. I like it. I like it...A LOT.

This blogging thing is totally getting out of control. It is no joke that we are complete slaves to our blog. Check the dedication:
Anyway, so we go to this place for dinner, not because the food is awesome, but because it is the only place with wifi!

Once we get there, we find that we need an adapter to plug in our computers. Our waitress actually WALKED me to the back alley and helped me buy the plug. AMAZING. And then these ex-pats that are here teaching English in Guilin came in, and I realized that in only 8 days, I missed the HECK out of sitting down and having a conversation in English. They gave very interesting insight into China living....that they string up great danes and eat them, that people raise these dogs to sell, and that restaurants pretty much hit the dogs over the head with baseball bats...that women will blackmail you for your money and you'll get deported...that little chinese kids idolize westerners. It's simply awesome how we can all just be "friends" in a heartbeat because we share the same language. Plus they absolutely loved our blog name! Cheers to Gideon and Richard and the rest of the Australian homies!
Afterwards, we met up with a "greeter girl" (Huan ying guan ling) that we met at McDonalds. She originally thought that I was Korean...but I quickly cured her of those ails by showing her my Chinese language skillz. And, this will blow your mind...at McDonalds here in guilin, they pay you $RMB 4.5. That's $0.50 an hour. Crazy. She was real cool. She took us to this night club called Caesers where everybody has to "buy" a table and they chit chat over really loud and really bad mando-pop. There was a dance floor that was, and I kid you not, 5x7 and of course the Lao Wai had to show them how they do it in America.
Keep your comments coming! That's literally the only thing that is keeping Woody alive!