Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Always making new friends

The internet cafe I've found here to use is very different to the previous cafes i've used over the past three weeks. Instead of being a small back street room that doesn't really work and is only used to check emails, this is a huge place where locals spend a lot of time. To my left some girls have logged on to play a typical chinese dance type game whilst on my right a guy is killing himself laughing at some TV show.

When I was in here last there was a girl next to me who I'd noticed was spending a lot of time translating Chinese to English and glancing my on occasions. Assuming she was talking to a pen friend I didn't think too much of it, but when I came to leave she pulled my attention to her screen. She only really knew how to say 'Pleased to meet you' but was very keen to get my mobile number so we could meet up during my stay (again, how would we ever communicate?!). I made my excuses, not that she understood them, and left, but I took a picture of the screen before I did. (The pic isn't great but I think it's clear enough to read her words if you click on it, comment if not and I'll transcibe it)

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