Keep working on it Brett. Something will stand out soon!
Willy
Ha ha ha, that brings to mind my first date with Miss Xiang. She was by far the sexiest woman I have ever met
. Sadly it's proving exceedingly hard to get her out on a second date.
Well, in the meantime I met yet another lady today. It's not hard to find dates here. This lady was tall and elegant, and she turned up with a driver.
Well it was a bit of a random afternoon but we ended up meeting a friend of hers who has a baby and lives in the posh part of town. How posh? Well we went to Starbucks and the bill came to 102 RMB for 3 extremely average drinks - that's enough money to buy 29 beers in my neighbourhood, or to pay for my entire week's food. This really is a country of extremes.
Interestingly she and her friend came from Xinxiang, but they were Han not the local ethnic population. Their Mandarin was excellent - I could make out a lot of the words they were saying, and they could also understand me. Which is much different when I try and speak to or listen to Cantonese or Hunan people.
I guess it could also be their social class - maybe posher Mandarin is easier to understand.