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Q: Do you talk to random people ?
I am going from introvert to extrovert over here. I love to stop random people (including foreigners) to talk with them. It looks weird and I rarely get rejections but It really changed my personality to a better person. How about you ? Does talking to people look too much hassle to you?
I will take the time here right now and talk to you hope you meet plenty of nice people over the weekend. best of luck to you 
Yeah, I do. I was extremely introverted before coming to China. Most people like to talk here. Although I don't normally approach random people, they approach me and talk to me. It's great.
I'm happy to talk to strangers, it's a chance to practise my Chinese, unfortunately the conversations tend to be excrutiatingly predictable. It's like there's a blueprint of small-talk that everyone's memorized and they just keep churning it out time after time. If one person were to ask me if i'd ever seen a ghost or a UFO or had a near death experience I think i'd kiss them.
NiceBrice:
I was about to write pretty much the same thing below.
I think its good (and free!) practice, although I really wish the conversations could be more in depth. Although my Chinese is still pretty crappy, so it probably doesn't matter.
Talk to random people? 
Nope, I leave that to the religious. 
I had a hard time answering questions asked by strangers. Everyone wants to know "哪个国家的？" (Where are you from?) They would ask me completely out of the blue, while i was figuring out why I had to answer the question, they would walk away assuming I didn't understand Chinese.
Sometimes when I shop for groceries, some people would come up & ask how I am going to cook squid or beef (which I often buy), some old ladies would come up & tell me which onions are bad & which vegetables are fresh. I would often answer their questions trying not to give too much personal info, but I shun hello boys & crazy mothers who push their kids to say hello to me.
Now that I think back, I was a lot more sociable in Beijing, as I would also talk to random people without fear, and get along well.
Now... it's back to the no-life stage.
I tell random women that I want to practice my Chinese.
