In my quest to show Chelsea some actual Chinese culture in this baby city we took a bus to Chiwan Village, a small village in the Nanshan district. Cara, Kim, Miriam (sp?), and Sarah came with us because they, too, were interested to see some history in this McD's riddled metropolis. The village felt so much more Chinese than the part of the city I live in. And we reveled in the fact that it wasn't crowded. No one was shoving us, or running carts or strollers into us. It was quiet. People stared a little more, but more in a "What the?" sort of way rather than the leering I get in my part of town. Children giggled and followed us around. And, somewhat disturbingly, we watched a man walked down the street wearing nothing
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