Living in China certainly has been one of the best and most memorable experiences of my life. Yet, the only thing predictable about it is it’s continual chaos.
(Hopefully this video loads correctly. Thanks to a certain firewall I can’t exactly upload or link to YouTube.)
Listen to the following video. This is a regular occurrence living in China. From the solitude of a moment erupts what any logical person would deduce is an air raid. In reality, this social disturbance is just a neighbor’s friendly way of celebrating. Last year I was genuinely checking the news for any attacks on China, having personally heard one too many successive bombings in my neighborhood.
Then, the unpredictable rears its head again when one looks at his or her work calendar. I woke this morning anticipating three days of work and then four days off. Ha. Haha. Thanks to hearing it from our students—not even a colleague—we discover that this is opposite reality. Instead, we have two days off in the middle of the week to only return to start work on Friday and continue for 8 successive days of class. Thanks to this, we’re all sitting scared as to what will happen to our purported five days off at the month’s end.
Finally, a simple trip to powder one’s nose may be hampered by running into the following situation, photographed above. This happens to be at one of my favorite restaurants, too. If only photos could capture smell. Sadly, this isn’t even the worst I’ve come across in my time here. Just imagine a multiple-day-outdoor-fried-food-festival port-a-potty…after tipping over. That’s your average Chinese bathroom. The best part is that at the school, the teachers’ offices are next to it.
Now thinking about moving to New York knowing no one and having no job or apartment lined up doesn’t scare me after China.
Later Days,
Rick
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