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Things I'll Miss About China
1. How frank the people are. I've been told my Chinese pronunciation was inaccurate and my Chinese characters (handwriting) childish. Then again, someone else said our Chinese was good and that our Chinese characters were pretty well-formed too. Hmm...
2. Nan Gua Bing (Pumpkin Biscuit): a sort of soft doughy round orange squishy delicious thing.
3. The roadside stalls, where everything is cooked on the spot and served steaming hot by the roadside.
4. The kids. Instead of seeing parents with their children, you see parents with their child. And the children are so cute. You can walk up to them and start talking to them and pretty soon a nice little set of gums and teeth will show.
5. The extra two lanes by the side of the main roads for the pedestrians and cyclists.
6. How crossing the road is an adventure.
7. The adventurous spirit of many of the people here, who brought us around and who took us "zhuan"ing (wandering) all over the place: into greenhouses to look at grapes, onto unstable rafts and bridges, to the top of mountains to look at peacocks, and almost into a yellow bees' nest.
8. Being able to call my friends in China.
9. Being able to learn so much from other people just by asking them questions and letting them talk.
10. The surprise of discovering you have so much in common with a person who seems so different from you.
Things I Won't Miss About China
1. Having to "jin" (toast) people, which makes me a little nervous, and having to "gan bei" (drain your cup).
2. The little furry boiled crabs with the orange squishy roe.
3. Not being able to understand what people say when they're speaking in dialect.
4. Having to wash my own clothes, although it was quite fun for two weeks, hanging them out to dry in the sun after.
5. Not really knowing what furry squishy uncooked sea creature it is I'm eating.
1. How frank the people are. I've been told my Chinese pronunciation was inaccurate and my Chinese characters (handwriting) childish. Then again, someone else said our Chinese was good and that our Chinese characters were pretty well-formed too. Hmm...
2. Nan Gua Bing (Pumpkin Biscuit): a sort of soft doughy round orange squishy delicious thing.
3. The roadside stalls, where everything is cooked on the spot and served steaming hot by the roadside.
4. The kids. Instead of seeing parents with their children, you see parents with their child. And the children are so cute. You can walk up to them and start talking to them and pretty soon a nice little set of gums and teeth will show.
5. The extra two lanes by the side of the main roads for the pedestrians and cyclists.
6. How crossing the road is an adventure.
7. The adventurous spirit of many of the people here, who brought us around and who took us "zhuan"ing (wandering) all over the place: into greenhouses to look at grapes, onto unstable rafts and bridges, to the top of mountains to look at peacocks, and almost into a yellow bees' nest.
8. Being able to call my friends in China.
9. Being able to learn so much from other people just by asking them questions and letting them talk.
10. The surprise of discovering you have so much in common with a person who seems so different from you.
Things I Won't Miss About China
1. Having to "jin" (toast) people, which makes me a little nervous, and having to "gan bei" (drain your cup).
2. The little furry boiled crabs with the orange squishy roe.
3. Not being able to understand what people say when they're speaking in dialect.
4. Having to wash my own clothes, although it was quite fun for two weeks, hanging them out to dry in the sun after.
5. Not really knowing what furry squishy uncooked sea creature it is I'm eating.
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