Lazy Day. Read for a bit, then went out with Philippe to look for a decent dictionary and grammar book. Though that pursuit was unsuccessful, I did find some really nice calligraphy brushes, and some very old ‘little red books’ of Mao quotations. I was tempted to buy these things, but I guess I don’t want to start filling up my bag with such things this early on in my journey east.
Went shopping with some of the english boys and watched one haggle down the price of a shirt to a quarter of the asking price. It is a weird thing trying to haggle. Sometime it seems quite wrong to ask so little from these people who make so little. It is, however, the way it is done here for better or worse. Clothes certainly can be quite cheap here, but you do have to haggle if you get to those cheap prices.