TraditionalChineseTattoos

OK well before I forget I just want to say that my fear of insane taxi drivers, lack of road regulations, and the complete insanity that is traffic in Chongqing is indeed justified. Today I was leaving the gym and I heard some chaos. I looked up and there was an unconscious girl who had been slammed into by a taxi.

Picture this: The poor girl looked limp and lifeless. The taxi driver gets out.The girl's boyfriend is like frantic on his cellphone and the girl continues to be unresponsive for about ten minutes. Meanwhile, there are tons of ppl crowding around and the road is completely blocked. Buses are honking with people hanging out the window, police men circling the area, motorcycles trying to squeeze through,ect. It took the ambulance a really long time to get through because no one was getting out of the way and vehicles just stayed on the road. What a mess. This certainly made me check twice, no X that, at least three or four times before crossing the road!

Dear lord, please never let me get hit by a car in China.
- yours truly, Carolina

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Now on to prior business. We went to the center of the city a while back for Fiona to get a traditional Chinese hand chiseled tattoo. They apparently are supposed to hurt a lot more, but according to Fiona, who has many tats already, it did not hurt more. But it did take two and a half hours for just this small flower.

almost finished..ouch. it is a traditional Chinese flower

setting up the ink

We got so bored at the tattoo studio that we decided to get friendship piercings that we will probably take out in a few months (if we ever get real, big girl jobs haha)

it takes two ppl to chisle away at her skin

Fiona's Traditional hand-done chinese tat

Patricia and Alison got their noses done. I got my tragus done (the funny little part that's really thick in the middle of your ear)

friendship piercing haha

patricia gets nose pierced

good fun.

Afterthought - I ended up going back to the same tattoo parlor and getting a tattoo of my own! (not my first so I wasn't too nervous) However, the traditional style would have taken about six hours, so I opted for just the regular type. Here is what I ended up with.

The back story isn't too exciting, but long story short was that I got my fortune told at this temple with tons of Buddhas and in the middle of the room there was like a queen bee, mother figure with tons of peacock feathers. And there my friends, the idea was born.