We agreed on a name today at supper. She is now Nina and to make it official, she brought her cell phone to the cell phone store and got her name changed in it. lol
Today was the best day ever.
They showed up at 10 with breakfast and then hit me with confronting Mini about giving some money back because we wouldn't be taking the trip to Guilin as planned. Well, I think it's still happening, but later tomorrow instead and Xin arranged it instead of getting the translator to arrange it - she doesn't trust her to not rip me off.
We took a cab from the hotel to the public swimming pool and here I learned more about Nina than I had known before. She has the patience of a saint. She spent nearly 2 hours trying to teach Mini how to swim. We swam for about 3 hours. Hot tubs, saunas, water jets of all shapes and sizes and she can swim almost exactly as well as I can. I was absolutely impressed how completely non-judgemental people are here. I'm overweight. I have these bitch tits that I'm emberased about. It is a non-issue to her and to everyone really. We would be swimming and talking with Mini and she would slowly float to me, hug, cuddle, then float away and swim more. While sitting in the sauna a young boy sat down beside me, said hi in English, said how are you, we talked a bit, when it was time to get out, he said bye bye. Nina giggled and hugged me as we left, she wants a child. Mini later asked me if I would like to have a child with Nina. Yes, of course. God we'd have beautiful kids.
After swimming we took a taxi to supper at a beautiful tea house. Tea in China is great. So ritualistic and the tea is refreshing as well. We had a few different dishes, one spicy beef with veggies, one whole chicken, head and all, cut into pieces, noodles...oh, we started the meal with these cool green egg shaped pastries. You take the wrapper off the pastry, tear the top of it, it has the texture of warm bread and inside is darker green goo which is sweet like syrup. Delicious. Finger food. They finally let me pay for supper. My first time paying for anything since I've been here other than translator services. Xin showed me what she sells - it looks like rackmount computers and systems so I think she makes a decent wage.
After supper we went shopping and bought some sandals and some snack food (fruit and drinks). Then we came back to the hotel room and looked at pictures of Nina on the internet, looked at tons of optical illusions, installed qq, joked and goofed around, generally had a great time. Unfortunately, they both left me for the night. I'm going to have to start getting more agressive I think.
NinaShe's wearing the necklace I brought her. Playing with her translator.
