May 23rd

I keep forgetting to mention that we saw a fight break out in McDonald's in Kunming. It was between 2 older men. One was big, beefy and had nice clothes on, the other man was smaller, kind of nerdy with plainer clothes. They started to yell at each other in Chinese, then the beefy man went after the smaller man. The smaller man picked up a chair to fend off the bigger man. There wasn't any serious blows, just a lot of pushing-shoving and yelling.

Then just an hour ago, we saw a man and woman fighting in the subway station near People's Park in Shanghai. The man grabbed the woman in a head lock and started to drag her away. Only one subway guard got involved at first, but he wasn't doing anything effective to get the man to release the woman. They guy was actually dragging her by the hair. Josh was getting really angry but I didn't want him to get involved. Plus he had Sen Lin in the sling on his chest. Finally a whole crowd of people were yelling at the man in Chinese then the police finally came. We were amazed that no one arrested the man immediately.

Tonight we took the subway to shopping mall called Raffles City in order to go eat at Carl's Jr. The subway was pretty easy to navigate once we figured out which exit to get out of. There were 20 different exits at one station. The underground station is like a city in of itself. All the signs are in Chinese and English.

After I had my Western Bacon Cheeseburger, we walked around the People's Park across the street and met a student who asked Josh a bunch of questions. He even had a worksheet for Josh to answer questions. We already knew this could happen. A few students talked to us already in our travels. Most of them don't understand why we adopted Sen Lin or why his parents abandoned him.