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The Shopping

Shopping is a 'lil different here.In America almost everyone loves shopping @ the mall.The Americans hate it here .If u were Chinese and u wanted 2 buy a computer chair then it would cost bout 498 yuan.Now if u were a foriegner then it would cost 600 yuan.U have to bargain no matter where u go, unless u go to a grocerie store or buy food,but if buy appliance u have to bargain. When u take a translater w/ u if the price is to high 4 them then u don't get it. The malls are so different, because they don't have shops they just have open booths or counters. They have alot of bakeries and the bakery food is so good. They have cream puffs(whipped cream in a pastry) and really good raspberry thing with coconut.....but it doesn't really taste like raspberyy. The mall food court can be disgusting but the food is usually really good and always really cheap. They have dogs wandering around in the malls. They have meat sections @ the mall and it is not a pretty site.Jameson can't go 2 the meat section cuz it makes him sick.There's chopped up fish everywhere chicken parts, cow parts, and I mean every parts of the animals pig and goat, and lamb parts.The weirdest thing that i

JAY SAYS

Today is the 26th of January 9:28 and 50 seconds pm. But I'm going to tell you about yesterday.
It was Chinese New Years.....sometimes all those fireworks can be a pain in the bahooki!! They did them all day and all night. And so we went to the Principals house to eat dinner around one o'clock. We were there until 3:30. We ate chicken wings, chicken legs, hush puppy things and a whole bunch of fruit and really weird drinks. The drinks were like Pepsi with an orange in it. It was only okay. We then went to a meeting around 4pm and then went to the school my parents teach at around 7pm. One of my mom's students from her English class brought us fireworks so we set them off in the schools parking lot. We had Chinese firecrackers, Roman candles, bottle rockets and sparklers and some other Chinese thing we don't know what it's called. So the city was suppose to do fireworks at 7pm, but they didn't do it so we went back to our apartment with other team members and we played games, ate spaghetti casserole and watched America's Funniest Home Videos. We played games and stayed up until midnight. Then everyone left and we stayed up for another hour or two. Emma, Selah and I watched some tv on her portable DVD player and my dad watched Star Trek(Voyager) and my mom and Joseph were out by 12:30
I can name all we did today in one sentence. Totally nothing!!
Happ New Year + Chinese!!