on sunday night, nicole, meghan and i went to a local cafe for dinner and a change of scenery from our apartments. it was great. we had pizza and milkshakes and got some work done. there were some russian and chinese students there in the next room over and about midway thru their time there they came over to our table and asked to take pictures with us. this is pretty typical here... if you're an american girl at a tourist site you will almost always have your picture taken with a random chinese person. they see nicole's blonde hair and meghan's red hair and immediately need to capture the moment so they can tell all their friends about the foreigners they know. anyway, these guys left the cafe eventually and about 5 minutes later the waitress comes to our table with three cups of strawberry milk. we were confused and told her we hadn't ordered that and she said the russian student had bought them for us before they left.

nice. free strawberry milk from a stranger.