We've been thinking about how we're going to exchange our Chinese money for U.S. money. When we came to China our credit union exchanged U.S. money for Chinese. No problem. But they won't exchange it back when we go home.
A local bank, The Bank of China, will exchange it for a fee, and only $500.00 per person per day. We don't have millions, but that will be a pain. So today we decided to try it. We went to the Bank of China to exchange our Chinese money for U.S. Oh, guess what! No one speaks English! We were actually doing quite well, filling out forms, getting our passport copied and getting a number to wait in line when along comes a Chinese man,casually dressed, and asks us if we our exchanging currency. We said Yes. He said he would do it for us. We had heard of him. He is distinguished by his gold necklace.
We stepped over to the side, in the bank lobby, and told him what we were doing. He whipped out the U.S. currency and we exchanged our Chinese currency! Just like that!
The couple who were here before us had left some information about him, and his business card, but Dad wanted to try the bank first. I guess Jason's exchange rate is better than the banks. He charged us $15.00.
I don't know what the bank charges. We never got that far. This is China!
Love you all Mom XXOO
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