Hainan

After Beijing several of us went to an island called Hainan. Hainan is a large island located south of mainland China. We arrived during the night and found the weather to be very hot and humid. For our first night we went to eat fresh seafood along the beach. We had may oysters and fish. With the fish we were able to select our fish from a tank which was then placed in a plastic bag a beat to death against the sidewalk. That was an interesting experience to see. After dinner we went to the beach where we purchased fireworks and launched them over the ocean. It was a very cool experience.

We spent the next couple of days on the beach where I and the other white kids in our group received horrible sunburns and turned into "lobsters". It was interesting to experience south China. The people on this island seem very different from their mainland counterparts. The people here have darker complexion and seem to stay up very late. It is not uncommon to see a lot of people eating dinner well after midnight.

After a couple of days of laying on the beach we returned to Nanjing.