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Not bad... Not Good!
... thank you’ to people you don’t like or you don’t know. Chinese people expect their children to marry a Chinese person who is well educated, with money, in their 20’s. It’s basically just a bonus to marry someone you love. Another important element to China is ‘Respect the aged and love the young’. I have also learned that trying to take my Chinese friends out for dinner is extremely difficult because ...
Just might make it...
... students awoke and went to Rudong (a district of Nantong) at 6:30 in the morning to fly kites. I know what you’re thinking, kite flying, really? We were a large group of foreigners and we were instantly mobbed after taking only 3 steps off the bus. People wanted to get their pictures with us, so in reality it really wasn’t kite flying it was a display of foreigners. It was insane, there was always a camera pointed ...
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day!
... much. In Chinese culture, the full moon is a symbol of peace and prosperity for the whole family. Its roundness symbolizes wholeness and togetherness. In the middle of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar the moon is full, and eight is also a popular number in Chinese culture, symbolizing wealth and prosperity. So people believe this day is very propitious.
- http://www.24en.com/read/culture/2010-0 ...
One Adventure After Another...
Nantong Normal University
With my family officially out of the country I figured life here would be a breeze on my own at Nantong University. Boy, am I sure being proven wrong every day. You don’t realize how much your parents and family do for you until you go grocery shopping and try and figure out how much toilet paper or laundry detergent you are going to need. Or what the heck you’re going to do when your toilet won’t ...
Farming, pearls and cormorants.
... what the medicine really is!
Yangshou is a very tidy city with very neat hedged gardens
and colourful trees. The surrounding hills make a spectacular backdrop to the
city. We drove back to Guilin in the bus and stopped on the way to visit a
traditional and functional farming community. The main crop is the rice and
they also grow abundant crops of chilli, a green-skinned orange which is juicy
but more bland than NZ oranges, cabbage and ...
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