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At the factory, the food was NOT good. At least not something I wanted to eat. So, every day for 3 weeks, at lunchtime, the factory manager would go fetch Eric and I McDonalds. You can see I look real excited here with my apple pie and cheeseburger. Notice the Chinese writing on the Coke can.

This is an example of the housing provided free of charge to all of the factory workers. Their meals are provided free of charge also. The save all of the money they earn. (approx 50 cents per hour) After a few years of working in the factory, they return to their homeland and start their family with their earnings.

Here are OUR wait staff. That's right. I took a friend to China with me to keep me company and help during my long stay, and every morning and every night, we ate in this restaurant located inside our hotel. We don't know why, but we were nearly the only ones in the restaurant at any given time. These waiters/waitresses were highly trained and the minute you took your last bite from a particular plate, it was GONE. Noone spoke a single word of english. The only Chinese we knew was nee how. (hello) But it wasn't long, and we knew all of "goodnight" , "goodbye", and "thank you".

This is the shaver assembly line. Those black delrin pieces have pins that contain the shaver cartridge. The first worker places the first part into the fixture, passes it to the next girl, she puts the first shaving blade in place, passes it down, so on and so forth. About the middle of the assy. line, there are small presses with a die installed and an air cylinder connected and when actuated, the die comes down and seats against the cartridge and locks everything in place.

These are the bathrooms. There is a continuous trough running along from stall to stall. No seat. Just stand over the trough! They had a regular toilet in an office they gave us while we were there. One time, I was downstairs in the mold shop, and I had to take a leak, so, I went in this style of bathroom and the factory manager saw me walk out of the bathroom and he ran up to me and says, "oh, Mr. Jay, we have bathroom for you upstairs"! Heck, I didn't care.

On the right is my friend Eric that went with me. We are at a restaurant in a private room complete with our own 27" television for the sole purpose of KARAOKE! Karaoke is HUGE in China. They LOVE it. We were on our own for the most part, but one night there was a Chinese guy our age in our hotel restaurant, and he spoke English. We became friends with him and he took us all over the place with their friends. What a blast we had! You can see the glass lazy Susan in the middle of the table. They brought out course after course after course! The fish was cooked and laid flat and everyone just reached in to it with their chopsticks. The guy sitting right next to me ate all the eyeballs out of every fish they brought out. That was his favorite part he said. Finally the fruit courses started and all the fruit was intricately carved into some shape or another.

Here is Eric with his "honey" :)

We were even taken to an amusement park.

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