Day 2: Dogs, Screams, HONK HONK, BEEP BEEP...

So the next day my "Friends" told me to get some rest, and someone would meet me.
Harder than it looks, considering, it’s so hot, and then there’s this group of people who ride on bikes and scream: “EEEI YAAAAI” “EEEI YOOOOI”
Every..
20 seconds
From 8AM to like whenever.

I have a few pets, in my house, I have 2 Gold Fishes, I have tiny ants in my kitchen, and I have a dog neighbor, who likes to bark every time someone comes near the door.

“BARK, BARK!”
“SHOO! SHOO!” said my Translator and her coworker

Yes noise pollution is pretty bad, plus all the car horns! Insane!
Here is a video I made of all the daily ruckus in Tianjin, as with all my videos you should download the high quality version since streaming is very crappy quality.

Tianjin_China_Noise_Pollun.wmv

After introductions, they brought me milk and bread. Thank you!

We went to the police station again, a different one now, there was this young teenager and her BF and her dad, they were arguing about something, or maybe not, since a minute later they were laughing, its hard for a foreigner to know these things, since the Chinese language is all Tonal, which means you really have to scream some of the words, or say them quieter. For Example…..

Woah Syang yao… means I want this….
Woah Syang yao chaAAH! Means I want Tea
Woah Syang yao chaAAH Heu Tongue – TEA with sugar
BUT…
Woah Syang yao CHAaah Heu Tongue – means with BAD sugar

I don’t think we did anything useful in the police station, just sat there inhaling second hand smoke for 30 minutes. My 2 ladies kept asking me:

“How is your country? They think china is bad yes?”

Well I said, they did try to poison my cat with rat poison, and there was lead in toys and stuff… they were all confused about this since this is the first time they heard of this.
Then I asked if they knew that 99% of products were made in china:

“Yes, we know. Are your shoes made in china?”
No, they were made in Romania.

After that, they took me to lunch, I don’t think in china they have a favorite restaurant, since we went to a first one that we saw.

The menu didn’t have any pictures, so I have no idea how I’m supposed to know how to order anything, I just asked if they had Dogs, Cats, or Frogs on the menu.

“NO no no…! They are cute, we no eat them! Maybe in Hobo-blow province, not here!”

Damn, not even frogs, Kermit lives yet another day! But not miss Piggy!

One different thing about waiters in china is that they will give you a menu, and will stand there watching you pick what you want to eat, even if it takes 15 minutes, but on the flip side, they will also watch you eat, which is nerve wrecking to say the least.

One of the girls said, drink some Chinese tea! I was like sure baby!
And I start drinking, and drinking, BLEEEECH, its not tea, its ICE T!

After that we took a subway ride, I bought a card with 100RMB on it, got my self frisked and searched, went to the bank to convert 4000 USD to about 18K RMB, I designated one of the co-workers to be my bank, as I put my wad of cash into her purse. Just like all women, she was very pleased :/

One little thing about banks, just like in Canada, they are behind a protective bulletproof glass, but what’s different here is that they have a microphone from which they speak! Before you had to listen real closely to hear anything but muffled noise, not here in Tianjin though!