Some public places in China have an “English Corner” where people come to practice their English skills.
I inadvertently stumbled on Hangzhou’s English Corner.
I was ambushed by a dozen Hangzhou residents who wanted to talk. Don’t want to get into details, but it was a pretty straight line of Q & A from me answering “I am from Los Angeles” to me lecturing on why Alaska was referred to at the time of its purchase as Seward’s Folly. (They should count themselves lucky they didn’t bring up Norse mythology or black holes or film formats or something.)