China 7 months: Cheap DVDs and suicidal taxi drivers

It was the weekend and as is the routine of most students, i went to Yantai city and around Muping. We took a taxi van into town. The Chinese style of driving has to be experienced to be believed.

The taxi driver plays Chinese style happy hardcore with an 80's twist as his driving. At one point our taxi driver who has a similar glare to Clint Eastwood, with a hint of a Jack Nicholson (think One flew over the cuckoo's nest) expression, decided that driving on four empty lanes simply was not good enough. He crossed lanes into on coming traffic and played chicken with a lorry. It was the funniest thing. The thing is, his not an exception but the complete norm.

Wanna go for a ride kid.

A majority of the people i was with wanted to checkout the DVD store, so that's where we headed for. We arrived safely to find a store that had a second entrance behind one of its posters. Illegal DVDs galore and at 40p a pop, not bad. I did not buy any as I do not have any room in my back pack but everyone else when absolutely "nuts". I've never seen a group of people so happy. You could buy the box set of the 24 series 1-5 for only 6 pounds and it was good quality. We later asked the driver to take us to a restaurant that was cheap and good. We had our own private room. It was not flashy but nice. All we wanted was meat, veg and some rice. They brung in 9 plates of food, good food, and we each had about 4 drinks each and individually it cost less than 2 pound each.



I'm liking China and the other students. Starting to feel very much at home here.