Bry and I have discovered that the people in Yanliang are so much friendlier than we remember anyone in Xi'an being. (Sorry, Xi'an!) Bry is constantly needing help with her bike kickstand and there is always some old man or woman willing to come over and help (read: shame her). Bry and I have begun branching out and now try using our poor Chinese outside with real people.
Anywho, I used our liquid soap dispenser to crush a cockroach in the bathroom, so, being unwilling to use the old one, we needed to get more from our local grocery store and tried using logic to find it (Soap should be near other cleaning products, right?) The ladies waiting at the end of the aisles to help people find things were eager to help once they noticed us fail to find soap after checking several logical places. Bry said "wash hands" (in Chinese) and mimed washing hands and the woman knew we meant soap. She took us right to it. Of course the hand soap was with the body wash. What had we been thinking?
Once we had found it, though, I couldn't help but browse the small portion of the store that is full of bathroom products. So many face washes! I decided that Bry and I should buy a facial to try out. I even managed to find one that wouldn't bleach my skin like the rest of them promised they would. (I know I'll get freakishly pale enough here in the coming months.) When I went to show Bry, a woman came over to help us.
Chinese people are all about a good deal. Every time we go to the grocery store, employees come over and show us a cheaper, larger version of what we were looking at. The lady saw us looking at buying one facial (which would have had enough product in the package for both our faces to get one use) and took us over to another product. This one came with 5 masks and two mystery thingies for 45rmb. Not a bad deal considering I was going to pay 8rmb for one. Bry and I decided to get it.
We ended up being too busy that day to get around to it, but the next night we decided to give it a try.
Right off the bat, I couldn't tear the package open and had to cut it open. Naturally, I cut the mask. Didn't I mention? These weren't just goo filled packages but an actual plastic mask covered in goo that you had to stick on your face.
They came folded inside the package, which proved to be quite challenging to open up. Once we were holding the goo covered masks up it was hard to figure out how to get it to stick to our faces. I decided the best thing to try was to lay on the ground and have Bry lay it on my face and then peel the plastic back off.
We gave it a try. As she was laying it on my face, I felt like I was about to be water boarded. I'm not sure who the mask is designed for (besides the fact that it's being sold in China) because the mask itself is incredibly wide and the eyes holes were very close together. The whole thing was just bizarre.
Did I mention that Bry and I have been watching a lot of the Office lately? Once we had the masks on, and once we'd stopped laughing at each other's faces, I realized what we looked like. Fear not, I took a picture. Here is a side by side comparison for your viewing horror.
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| Yeah, we were surprised, too, |
Anywho, I used our liquid soap dispenser to crush a cockroach in the bathroom, so, being unwilling to use the old one, we needed to get more from our local grocery store and tried using logic to find it (Soap should be near other cleaning products, right?) The ladies waiting at the end of the aisles to help people find things were eager to help once they noticed us fail to find soap after checking several logical places. Bry said "wash hands" (in Chinese) and mimed washing hands and the woman knew we meant soap. She took us right to it. Of course the hand soap was with the body wash. What had we been thinking?
Once we had found it, though, I couldn't help but browse the small portion of the store that is full of bathroom products. So many face washes! I decided that Bry and I should buy a facial to try out. I even managed to find one that wouldn't bleach my skin like the rest of them promised they would. (I know I'll get freakishly pale enough here in the coming months.) When I went to show Bry, a woman came over to help us.
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| You can always help me, Jackie. |
Chinese people are all about a good deal. Every time we go to the grocery store, employees come over and show us a cheaper, larger version of what we were looking at. The lady saw us looking at buying one facial (which would have had enough product in the package for both our faces to get one use) and took us over to another product. This one came with 5 masks and two mystery thingies for 45rmb. Not a bad deal considering I was going to pay 8rmb for one. Bry and I decided to get it.
We ended up being too busy that day to get around to it, but the next night we decided to give it a try.
Right off the bat, I couldn't tear the package open and had to cut it open. Naturally, I cut the mask. Didn't I mention? These weren't just goo filled packages but an actual plastic mask covered in goo that you had to stick on your face.
They came folded inside the package, which proved to be quite challenging to open up. Once we were holding the goo covered masks up it was hard to figure out how to get it to stick to our faces. I decided the best thing to try was to lay on the ground and have Bry lay it on my face and then peel the plastic back off.
We gave it a try. As she was laying it on my face, I felt like I was about to be water boarded. I'm not sure who the mask is designed for (besides the fact that it's being sold in China) because the mask itself is incredibly wide and the eyes holes were very close together. The whole thing was just bizarre.
Did I mention that Bry and I have been watching a lot of the Office lately? Once we had the masks on, and once we'd stopped laughing at each other's faces, I realized what we looked like. Fear not, I took a picture. Here is a side by side comparison for your viewing horror.
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| Hello, Clarice. |
