final tally

so using my trusty memory, i kept track of all the laowai i met over the time of my trip. interestingly enough, americans came in the lead with an astonishing 14. even more interesting is that i did not meet an american until the last leg of my trip in guilin. the next runners-up were the germans with an amazing showing of 12. third were the english with 8. the rest of the totals were as follows:

scots: 2
canadian: 7
swiss: 1
dutch: 1
indian: 2
french: 2
kiwis: 2
italian: 1
danish: 2
brazilian: 1
irish: 1
israeli: 2
belgian: 1
czech: 2
australian: 2