Around town

 Here ate some pictures from this weekend.  The lady is cooking bisquits and the man on the right side pic is roasting peanuts on the sidewalk.  They were on opposite ends of the 'Bamboo Mall' I found on the street parallel to the canal and intersects w/ Busy & Music streets further west.  The mall had very small stores along each wall and a long of stuff down the middle.   Very crowded.  A young university student from Beijing, Chu, rode his bike up and started asking me directions on getting somewhere!  I continue to find the Chinese sense of humor much to my liking.   Chu is in town visiting his aunt during the time University is out for Spring Festival.  He is studying International Business.  That would be about the top choice to make right now, I think.  He and I met another Chinese man who came out of a store and shouted Hello to us.  He is an English teacher at a local school and kept us with his talking about 30 minutes.  Later, he found me again after I had parted from Chu.   (I believe people here do a lot of stalking)  He wanted a way to contact me and wants me to come and speak at his class.  I told him I was very busy, but if he called later I would see what I could arrange.  When I returned to the hotel I was on the computer for a while and then was reading when I heard  pecking on a door.  I heard it 2-3 times and decided it may be my door.  I started across the room and as I opened it, I startled a clerk whole was about to open it.  She was delivering the breakfast coupon, which I never use.  They have a problem staying out of my room, though nothing has come up missing, they are very interested.  The ladies have walked into the room 2X when I was getting ready to go to work.  Another time I let a cleaning lady in while I was finishing a note to Lela  & she stood beside me with her hands on her knees watching me   finish the note.
The picture on the left, below the bisquits, is the selection of face masks available for Lela when she arrives.