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All done! We're basically just chillin' until Wednesday when Jimbo shows up. Since there's not much to report, we thought we'd give you another glimpse of the normal, daily life of a Chinese person (or, a foreigner living in China).

For some reason, if you walk down any street in China, you're likely to see at least one hair salon. I would guesstimate that hair "stylists" make up about 30% of the work force in China. The greatest part of the hair salons in China is that they go the extra mile - massages and all. Another entertaining aspect of the hair salons are the hair stylists' hair styles. The overwhelming majority of hair stylists are male, and their hair styles usually look like something you'd find in mid 80's MTV video. To demonstrate that point, check out below:
Yes, that's a girl, but there isn't much gender differentiation in hair style. If you're wondering what a shampoo and cut go for here, I bought 15 haircuts for 100 Yuan, which comes out to a little less that $1/cut. We don't want to bore you to long, because after all, we are talking about hair cuts here, but below is a video Darbie shot while I was getting clipped.

Close listeners might have been fortunate enough to hear Kendall's poor but adequate Chinese.
That's just one of the 10 or so hair salons on campus. Across the street is a very popular restaurant section of campus. Since it has gotten warm, it has become even more popular. We ventured over there to see what was up, and came across Kabobs! While there's no doubt that this meat has been sitting out for a while, and eating it is basically a gamble, kabobs never disappoint. They'll put anything on a spear, from bread and peppers to...
What are those? Chicken FEET! Which are really popular by the way. Darbie and I think it's because, compared with a lot of other measly Chinese cuts of chicken, the feet do have an ample proportion of meat. Here's Darbie with more!


So, if you come to China, ignore the inevitable diarrhea and painful stomach cramps, and eat a kabob! At least their good going in!


DB&KM


P.S. We're not lying about strange Chinese cuts of meat. To prove our point...

CHICKEN HEAD!!! At least it looks like the chicken went peacefully.