Now my first day in China involved me pseudo running away from the Chinese police, people trying to pressure me into buying Jordan's and resisting KFC. Now it is no surprise that in America all of the above mentioned things are stuff that black people supposedly are subject to. However, as the wise Dave Chappelle once said, "if you don't like chicken and watermelon something is wrong with YOU!
OK on to the stories. When we arrive in Beijing after our travels Ann and I decided to take the train instead of a cab, to save a little bit of money and also because we both have a strong love for public transportation. When we get there we are supposed to register at the local police station, so we find a police officer at a shady train station police office place and ask him... He has no idea what we are talking about and takes us to a larger station in the train station. We go there and still people have no idea, he then tells us we need to go back to the airport to register, and not to stop at our friends place to drop off our bags. This request was utterly ridiculous in our minds after traveling for over 24 hours, so Ann tells him ok, we're going. We then proceed to run up the stairs toward our friends apartment with all of our luggage, and try as hard as we can to keep them from seeing us. When we arrive above ground we have NO real idea which direction our friend lives, we start walking the wrong direction then eventually find a cab and he takes us to my friends place, which we easily could have walked to (no worries the cab ride was under $2usd)
We then decide to go do a little bit of shopping (emphasis on little), I went and got two custom shirts made for about $34 USD... I think I overpaid and I'm not happy about it. In the shopping center we went downstairs where I made the mistake of looking at some Jordan looking shoes, the girl tells me to try them on and then refused to let me go. She cut the price in half, grabbed my arm when i tried to walk away, and told me to not play games with her. Now this is clearly not the first time that this has happened to me, but in this context it was a first. I eventually found a way away from this girl and walked around some more, where I noticed that any place they sold Jordans or Air Force 1s of any kind I was aggressively sought after to buy some stuff.
I was famished when I walked by the KFC, however I resisted. I did not travel to the other side of the world to eat KFC on the first day... Instead I went to Hooters! Where I would have been able to forget that I was in Beijing, if it was not for the terribly loud music that the off beat waitresses danced to... bless their hearts.
Ann and I then decided that we needed to make the trifecta or quadfecta or something like that. We needed to travel on all forms of public transportation that Beijing had to offer. We decided to take a bus to a park... The bus was real cheap 1cny which is about 15cents usd. So if you've been keeping count that's 3 a subway(train), taxi and bus (if you include the plane that's 4.) So for now... that's all
did you know... That most dust particles in your house come from dead skin
