Actually, I have also taken up some new habits while being here. Here is an article about some funny things in China in my daily life :
1. You are able to buy fruits and give direction to the taxi driver in Chinese.
2. You listen to Chinese music.
3. You said hello to the taxi driver / tuk tuk out of your apartment.
4. You are a chopstick master.
5. You’ve dance with old women’s group some traditional Chinese dances in the street.
6. You’ve learn many interesting things about Chinese culture such as being a doctor in China is not good, but to be a teacher is the top (unlike here in Canada).
7. A spinning class at 40 degree in a small Chinese gym is a piece of cake!
8. You eat rice and cabbage every day but you miss rice if you’re not eating it for one day.
9. The baijo is now your favorite alcohol.
10. You have Chinese friends who never went to a bar.
11. People who spit everywhere you find it almost normal.
12. Your new favorite snack is chicken feet and tofu.
13. You see nothing wrong with standing on a white stripe in the middle of a highway while cars whiz past you at 90 km/h.
14.You don't blink an eye when a complete stranger wants to take a photo of you with his familly.
14. You start drinking hot water even if it’s so hot outside.
15. You eat soup with chopsticks.
16. you use Kleenex for table napkins.
17. You drink warm sodas and find them refreshing.
18. you bargain with the grocer over the cost of a head of lettuce.
19. You no longer check the expiration date on the milk you just bought.
20. You comment that the pollution "isn't really that bad..."
21. You start wearing a face mask on windy days and wonder at the "silly foreigners" who don't do the same
22. You start to wonder if the chocolate ice cream you find in the store is even chocolate... sure it is brown, but.
23. You can't find face lotion or cleanser that does not bleach your skin whiter....
24. You have a collection of Umbrellas
25.You point out foreigners to your Chinese friends even though you're foreign yourself.
26.You constantly wonder if everything has been boiled long enough.
27.You convince yourself that it doesn't matter how dirty the cooks' hands are, cooking will fix it.
28.If there are only 4 screaming children running around the classroom, you consider it a good primary class.
29 You've got a pre-paid ticket with a reserved seat on a train or plane, but you still run like mad to to the get there first.
30. Everyone wants to be your friend all you have to do is teach them English for free.
31. You tell people you don't understand, so they write it for you in Chinese.
32. You too think that the ugliest western man always has a beautiful Chinese girlfriend.
33.A hike up a mountain calls for a plastic grocery bag full of junk food.
34. You leave your laundry hanging up for more than a day its dirtier than it was before you washed it.
35. You eat every kind of meat off the bone, and then spit those bones on the table.
1. You are able to buy fruits and give direction to the taxi driver in Chinese.
2. You listen to Chinese music.
3. You said hello to the taxi driver / tuk tuk out of your apartment.
4. You are a chopstick master.
5. You’ve dance with old women’s group some traditional Chinese dances in the street.
6. You’ve learn many interesting things about Chinese culture such as being a doctor in China is not good, but to be a teacher is the top (unlike here in Canada).
7. A spinning class at 40 degree in a small Chinese gym is a piece of cake!
8. You eat rice and cabbage every day but you miss rice if you’re not eating it for one day.
9. The baijo is now your favorite alcohol.
10. You have Chinese friends who never went to a bar.
11. People who spit everywhere you find it almost normal.
12. Your new favorite snack is chicken feet and tofu.
13. You see nothing wrong with standing on a white stripe in the middle of a highway while cars whiz past you at 90 km/h.
14.You don't blink an eye when a complete stranger wants to take a photo of you with his familly.
14. You start drinking hot water even if it’s so hot outside.
15. You eat soup with chopsticks.
16. you use Kleenex for table napkins.
17. You drink warm sodas and find them refreshing.
18. you bargain with the grocer over the cost of a head of lettuce.
19. You no longer check the expiration date on the milk you just bought.
20. You comment that the pollution "isn't really that bad..."
21. You start wearing a face mask on windy days and wonder at the "silly foreigners" who don't do the same
22. You start to wonder if the chocolate ice cream you find in the store is even chocolate... sure it is brown, but.
23. You can't find face lotion or cleanser that does not bleach your skin whiter....
24. You have a collection of Umbrellas
25.You point out foreigners to your Chinese friends even though you're foreign yourself.
26.You constantly wonder if everything has been boiled long enough.
27.You convince yourself that it doesn't matter how dirty the cooks' hands are, cooking will fix it.
28.If there are only 4 screaming children running around the classroom, you consider it a good primary class.
29 You've got a pre-paid ticket with a reserved seat on a train or plane, but you still run like mad to to the get there first.
30. Everyone wants to be your friend all you have to do is teach them English for free.
31. You tell people you don't understand, so they write it for you in Chinese.
32. You too think that the ugliest western man always has a beautiful Chinese girlfriend.
33.A hike up a mountain calls for a plastic grocery bag full of junk food.
34. You leave your laundry hanging up for more than a day its dirtier than it was before you washed it.
35. You eat every kind of meat off the bone, and then spit those bones on the table.
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