This past weekend we got to go DVD shopping for the first time. I think the government is trying to crackdown on the sale of pirated dvd’s because we had to goto 3 or 4 places to finally get someone that sells them. So we finally found a store that sells them. . They had a list of dvd they had but unfortunately it was in Chinese. So the people that were helping us, Clark and his wife from the office, got one of the sales people to bring out the dvds so we could go through and pick them out by hand. The dvd’s were kind of strange though. . they said they were “HDVD”, and each DVD had 4 or 5 movies per disc. I initially thought they might be mpeg4 but it turns out they are like VCD or mpeg1. This means the quality is lower but it is still playable in a regular dvd player. I didn’t end up buying any from the market but Nathan did. For some reason mine and his computers don’t seem to like some of the discs, but other people with Chinese made drives will read them. This seems really strange. After we went shopping for dvd’s we walked back to CVIC. We stopped at RT-mart and bought some food. We then went back to Clark and Janice’s apartment there they made the food. It was really good. After that we went for a walk over by Shandong University. It was an interesting day.

Today, Sunday, I basically just sat around the apartment all day. I washed some clothes but basically just watched tv all day. It was a good relaxing day.