Dear All Who Want Some Tiny Details,
It is our last full day in Hangzhou. Of course we went and bought baozi (tofu & veggie and red bean steamed buns) and tea for breakfast. We had our last class where everyone is getting ready for summer with their fat burning obesity acupuncture treatments where they discourage people from exercising because it makes you fat, and note in the US these women would be considered healthy. And tonight we are going to go dancing at midnight on the West Lake.
But our biggest accomplishment is that we sold with ease the two bikes: One by asking our newly made Wisconsin friend who is studying full time at ZheJiang, Eric, in clinic on Thursday, "how do you sell a bike?" He then yelled out in Chinese "Anyone want to buy a bike" and this 64 year old woman with urinary incontinence said she would look at it after her treatment. Then we arranged to meet on Saturday at 8 am with the help of Eric and of course she was there early in her super cute red velvet jogging suit and we gave her our receipt -- do not ask me why but everyone wanted the receipt. What receipt I do not know for we cannot write a receipt so we just gave them the one we got from the bike shop.
And one bike to a guy who works in the garage below the hotel who ran after me while I was biking away on Friday holding the sign I wrote and posted in English and Chinese saying two bikes for sale. I managed to set up a time and date with him in Chinese for tomorrow noon. Today, we were doing great but then he called someone so he could ask for the receipt and took our picture so he could show the person he was talking to what we looked like. It is great to just get half the money back. Then I went out and spent it on some more local "very famous in China" specialities like HangZhou umbrellas and HangZhou scissors and at our favorite soup spot I went crazy and spent 9 RMB or $1.10 on rice sticks, spinach, cilantro, mushrooms and fishballs wrapping pork soup.
Now it is time for a nap before dancing. Only a week and a day left. Elaine
Bye Bikes
1 comment:
Elaine! I'm glad you and Amy are finally going dancing - no jetlagged guests holding you back this time! :) Great news about selling the bikes, I hope you were able to sell George's too.
I got home last night and have done my laundry and cleaned the kitchen. (Someone couldn't sleep through the night...)
Have fun in Beijing! Let me know if you need a hostel for Shanghai, because mine was awesome.
Miss you and Amy! Love to you both!
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