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A few weeks ago I went to visit Taichung, and saw a few cool spots. Visiting [...]
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Touring Taichung : Big Laughing Buddha, Art Street and Jing Ming Apartment Hunting in Tainan revisited Taiwan’s English Blogosphere - Introducing Expat Bloggers to local Taiwanese Best Taiwan blog awards – Voting now open on TaiwanderfulChina
The Chinese Israel bashing in response to China bashing on Israeli media Rare stamp : China’s “The entire nation is red” but Taiwan is white Israel at the Beijing Olympics : What do the Chinese think of Jews? Our medallists : Taiwan’s Chen Wei-ling and Israel’s Shahar Zubari
10 sentences I get to hear ALOT lately:
- Arrr! Why didn’t you call me and tell me you’re coming?
- How was the trip? tell me everything.
- What was your favorite … ?
- How is it to come back?
- What are you going to do now?
- I brought you some Chinese food / we can go have Chinese food.
- Come’on, say something in Chinese.
- Why are you so thin? Why are you so pale? did you get taller this year?
- You HAVE to come to this Purim party. But… you HAVE to.
- It’s nice that you’re here. I know you don’t want to be here, but it’s still really nice that you’re here.
10 short responses:
- Hmmmm… and you are… ?
- EVERYTHING was … ehhhh… O-K.
- Who do you like more? your father or your mother?
- -sigh-
- Got any ideas for me?
- Did you ever eat Israeli food in Bangkok? A humos in Saigon? Yeah, it’s that different.
- Wo3 zhen1 yao4 hui2 qu4 Tai2wan1. (It means - very happy to be here with you :P)
- I’m anorectic, white is beautiful and no-you got shorter.
- Are there going to be people there?
- -half smile- :$
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| March 16th, 2006 at 5:30 pm #
ahhhh and here begins reverse culture shock
I remember the pain after 6 months in Bolivia.
My personal favourite was “So tell me about Bolivia!?”
Ummmm….it…was….good?
I spent 6 months there!! not 2 days!!! be more specific!
fiLi
| March 17th, 2006 at 12:04 pm #
Culture shock… it makes you the biggest snob (especially remembering that you, yourself, didn’t really know what to say when -your- friends came back from their long trips).