Herro..
So.. as many of you know my mom is in Chang Sha China this year teaching English at the University there. What an experience that must be. [Mom, write an article about your trip that I can post here]
The millions of followers I have reading my blog (ok.. 4 people) would find it interesting. Like this.. here's what she saw when she went to WalMart in China. Pets.. I think not.
So.. stand by for more from there..
posted by miked @ 8:58 AM
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OK, Mom's in China, and those frogs you saw are what's for dinner...don't ask.
China, from the sublime to the when-am-I-going-to-start-loving-it-here???:
Yesterday I was moved to tears when I heard a Mozart symphony played to perfection by a young woman who was on an up-right piano in a small, dirty stall. I ate snake, squid, camel, jellyfish and mystery cookies. The horrifying thing is, it was great. Hunan food cannot be beat. The frogs are for later...MUCH later. My students are of University age; they are polite, sincere, modest, bright and grateful. They also spit on the floor, pee in open stalls, scratch their bums in plain view and throw garbage anywhere and everywhere. I live in an apartment with a wide-screen TV, a new computer, a king size bed and very tall ceilings with elaborate plaster scroll-work. I also chase four ounce insects from my fridge, shower in an open, tiled room with a sprayer, listen to "political" speeches over a loudspeaker at 6 in the morning and have dog s--- in my hall. I am going on a vacation for The National Holiday (October1-9)to Xi-an for 6 days, stay in four star hotels, have all my meals provided...tipping is NOT allowed in China, and tour sites of 2000 BC and older...all for $400 US dollars. I will have no toilet paper, unless I bring it, eat many indescribable things which crawl or squirm rather than walk, breath air that would be an 8 star red-alert in any major U.S. city and ride on vehicles which have never known a shock absorber. I fell in love with four small wild kittens and their mother below my window and fed them for days. Later they were killed, most probably for food. I love it here; sometimes I hate what I see, or cannot see, but mostly I am glad I came. It is like nothing I have experienced in all my travels, and they have been extensive. I am in a place where 20,000,000 humans in a city is chump change. I come from an old, beautiful city of 2,000 where everything is clean, green and where you can't blow your nose without your neighbor yelling, "What?" It's only been a little over a month. What a land of contradictions. I do not think I will ever really know what is going on here, but it HAS been interesting guessing!
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