I thought of some things that I didn't tell in the blog that we got to experience. The chinese teach their children to potty train at a very young age. They don't normally use diapers as long as we do. They start potty training them before the age of 1. What they use is called split pants. Split pants to some people are a style of pants for women. These are actually split in the middle and the children learn how to go to the potty this way. They just scuat when they have to go. In china it is not uncommon to see a child just go whereever when nature calls. A couple of families even saw it happen in a Walmart. They call someone to clean it up. While a few of us took a day and went shopping we came across alittle girl scawtting. If we did that here we would be jailed for it. But that is apart of their culture. You don't see alot of it. When we saw it I could see some of the faces of the people and they did not like what they saw. So some of the people don't approve this. I don't like the idea of seeing children using the street or sidewalk to go to the bathroom. But, I do see the plus side of the split pants. They will learn faster and easier. When they are training them the use sounds like a whislte for pee and a grunt for poo. We actually tried it with Shelby and she went pee. But just one time and after that she wouldn't do it. So for right now diapers then we will try it again.

Do you remember when people in the United States could smoke anywhere they wanted? Well, Chinese men smoke alot cigarettes. They can smoke anywhere they want. We did see a few women smoking but very few. Mostly men smoking. Everywhere you go there are people smoking. They only place that I did see a no smoking sign was in all of the taxi's. That surprised me. I figured that I would see the taxi driver smoking but everyone we had did not.

The people there are very nice and smiled and nodded as if to say hello. We did have some people who wanted to practice their english. That was funny. Try to talk with someone who is very limited or has not practiced their english in awhile and try to hold somewhat of a conversation with them. Even no they don't completely understand they still want to try. Angela and I came across several people in different areas. We went into a jewerly store and this one girl had pretty good english. She kept telling us that her english not so good. But she spoke it better then we did at times. Then we had some that understood alittle bit but with body language or pointing to things to let them no what you are asking we made out ok. When we went for our foot massage that was hularious. When we went in we looked at the board and asked for a foot massage the girl just looked at us and shrugged her shoulders and went and got someone else. This girl could understand what we wanted and briefly explained the pricing. So we took the VIP treatment. We went upstairs and they put us in one room together. The girl asked us boy or girl? We told her we didn't care. She was asked which we preffered. So Angela got a male and I got the female. Now when they came in they poured boiling hot water in a wood bucket that was lined in plastic. They asked us to place our feet in there. We did and I thought that they where boiling the skin off of my lower calf to my toes. The man that came in knew english but had not practiced speaking it for a long time. We kept pulling our feet in and out of the water several times. He asked what wrong. We told him HOT!!!!!!! need cold water. He realized what we were saying and they both went and got a bucket of cold water and added that in. It cooled it off alittle not alot. It was ok. Then they proceded to do the massage. Listen when I tell you that you have not had a foot massage until you go to China and have one. It is nothing like the ones you get here. They believe in reflexology and using every muscle in there body to give you a massage you will never forget. Angela kept telling the guy that it was to hard. I was tryin to use sign language. When I mean sign language it is not the same as what you think. There was this table in between us so I used that as an example and he got the idea along with understanding some of the english words that I used to explain. Angela was about to cry if he had not backed off. They use there knuckles and they press very, very, very, very, very, etc hard. They also use their fingers in pressing. While this is going on the guy was trying to practice his english. It was almost like talking to someone who is losing their hearing. Not loud but one word at a time done slowly. He would ask about how old we are? Why are we here? That was a good one. We told him the reason and he understood that then he started asking Angela about her children. That was funny. She was trying to explain about her kids and he would listen so hard to her and then look at me as if saying I don't understand. Then Angela would look at me and then I would try to explain what she was telling him. I don't know how but he understood it the way I was telling him. I just did it slow and basic. Then we asked both of them about boyfriend or girlfriend. They told us about them and theirselves. We left there laughing about the whole thing. Oh, they did give you a leg massage and up body massage before you left there. Before we left the four of us were laughing and just enjoying the time that we were spending together. I wanted to do it again but never found the time. Will post more stories later. Good night.