Wrestling Blogs - Ben Askren

I feel like such a dork because I wrote just short of 12 horus ago, but I had a rather exciting day and figured I would be busy tomorrow and I am bored now so why not write. Today after my morning wrestling with Max a big group of us headed to the silk market, I havent had so much fun in a long time. I got an Armani suit for $27 and Tru religion jeans for $19 (don't worry people I realize these may be knock offs.) I am really hoping Martin posts video of this which he took bc it is absolutely hilarious. The people at the silk market will physically bring you into their shops, they grab you and then wont let go. THey give you a high price say 1000 yuan, then you offer them about 100 yuan then it is usually settled for somewhere around 150 yuan. Max is a really good negotiator, I on the other hand could care less to fight about a few dollars. Max loves to use the walk away technique, where he walks away then they chase him down and bring him back. After the silk market we went to the hometown hopefuls place and it was awesome. Hometown hopefuls is somewhere that olympians can invite 4 friends/family and it is all the free food/drink you can have. THey also give away free tickets to events. I got tickets to table tennis that I am really pumped about. SO I headed back to the village got a run in now I am doing some errands and I will head to bed soon. Look for that video from Martin.
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