So Much Shopping, So Little Time

Not what we're shopping for, but an example of the fresh seafood at Carrefour, known in Chinese as Jia Li Fu. Think of a Jewel and a Wal Mart jammed together with tiny aisles.

We're so accustomed to chicken feet (sometimes they show up in our bowls or on our plates) that this doesn't surprise us anymore. Sometimes the heads, too.

Arghhhh, as Charlie Brown used to say. So much shopping, and so little time left. Our remaining schedule is packed with classes and trips; today some students go to Mr. Jiang's new house in the suburbs; Monday we have classes in the morning and afternoon; Tuesday our written exam; Wednesday our oral exam; Thursday class in the morning, and the Forbidden City in the afternoon; we leave Friday morning. This will go incredibly quickly. And by Friday night we will be in Japan!!! A whole new language and new set of experiences, and a little culture shock as we move from messy, delicious, friendly, trafficky, cheap, crowded, dusty, tolerant, noisy China to Japan.