Small Businesses

There is not much new with me nothing really big has happened with me lately. There are a few things that I would like to share with you about small businesses in China. These can include anything from a small convenience store type place to haircut shop to restaraunts. Unlike in America small businesses are everwhere the streets are lined with all kinds of stores. There are some stores that i have no idea what they do in them others pretty normal but in general you would never find them most of them run the way the are run in the states. For example I had to get my first haircut in China the other day. First of all I had noticed that all of the haircut places where definately not the same as back home. There seemed to be about 5 too many people working in all of them and some of them would be open from 9AM-12AM really odd hours. The one we went was pretty nice but it was strange only the men cut hair and only the women would wash your hair. It was a very clearly defined difference between the work the men did and the women very interesting. It was not too bad though I just took a picture in and showed them what I wanted it turned out really well actually and I got a cut, Shampoo and conditioner for about 6 Yuan (75 cents). Another interesting store is what we call the friendly store it is a small store right next where we live that sells anything from ice cream to batteries to beer. The people in it are really friendly and they always try to teach us Chinese whenever we go in. The strangest thing about it is that the people who own it live there and work there all day. It is open for at least 14 hours a day and they are always there I have never seen anyone but them working there. The live right in the back of the shop just a Father, Mother and daughter. They are always friendly but I do not think they ever get to go anywhere it is really kind of sad. I hope this post was interesting to you not much has gone on lately but I just thought you may find this interesting.