Sunday, October 18, 2009

China part 2

So the Canton Fair--the largest fair in the world--is incredible. We walked about 9 miles a day, only seeing a fraction of vendors. 







We did find 3 new manufactures that we will be doing business with. One of the manufactures has a 24 year-old  sales representative named Yao Ming (or maybe Yan Mun). He speaks fairly good English and is well educated. We talked extensively with him as we traveled to his factory in a remote part of China. Yao is a great guy, I gave him a Book of Mormon I had on me and wrote my testimony in it, much more to that story for later. Anyways Yao and his company wanted to take us to lunch.  They asked if we liked pigeon.....and that's when all of a sudden we had another appointment we needed to be at.









Well by the pictures I have sent, we did enjoy a good back rub. These Chinese have it down to an art, even standing on your back, working magic.








The Canton Fair kept us pretty busy the remainder of the week, we did some tough negotiating and hopefully things will work out as planned. We were offered plenty of crazy food, but stuck with the Western/Chinese imitation food.


The Chinese are a humble people for the most part, just trying to carve their way in the world like the rest of us. They are crazy drivers, maybe even as bad as Utah drivers (which is pretty bad). After 15 more hours in flight I'm now in LA waiting for my last leg home to Salt Lake. I'm excited to see my family and resume normal life. We had a great trip. 

2 comments:

Britney and Jaren Jensen said...

Wow what a neat trip!!! All the way to China, I can't wait to hear the rest of your story about giving away a BOM. I can't believe you didn't want to eat pigeon :)

Siri said...

What? You guys went to the Canton Fair!!!! You are very brave! It looks like it was fun! I need to catch up with you guys and find out what you are up to!