STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

This is kind of random, but I just had kind of a weird/cool experience. After my class, I went my bus stop where this was this largish (like 7-10) group of Asian men. I've seen groups of Asian men before on my bus and they always went everywhere together so I figured they were here on business or something. I basically had no idea. But while I was at the bus stop, I was standing there just reading the newspaper and one man approaches me and asks if he can take my picture while I read. I've had a couple students in photography classes ask if they could take my picture before, so I didn't think much of it and said okay. But then he would just randomly pick his camera up again every 30 seconds and take another picture. And the whole group would watch me, which is how I would know he was taking a picture. I'd just notice all these eyes on me, and I'd look up and there he'd be with the camera again. This was starting to get a little weird, so I said I didn't want any more pictures taken. One of the other guys in the group asked me if I would take a picture with him, and I said I'd rather not. The original guy started taking pictures again until he finally stopped because I asked him so many times.

-anyway-, I said something about how I was uncomfortable having my picture taken by someone I don't know, and he gave me a business card and said he's a professor from China who came here to write a book on American student life or something like that. I believe him, even though part of me thinks "well, any stalker/rapist/murderer would come up with a story like that," so rest assured I know that might be dumb to believe him. Anyway, I looked up the university and it's a real one, and I went to his website and it was all in Chinese so I couldn't read it. So in conclusion...if you're ever in China and reading a book about America and see a girl reading a newspaper...maybe that's me! :)