Thursday, January 28, 2010

Things I Miss Part 4 (What I’ll Miss About China…AND What I WON’T Miss)

1/28/10

This is my last installment of the 'Things I Miss' section. Although the 'won'ts' outweigh the 'wills,' I'm going to miss this place. Here goes!


WILL MISS…

*My kids

*Hallie as my roommate

*City Shop (especially their sandwiches)

*Buns of various sorts by Xiang Yang

*Element Fresh

*Pirated DVDs

*The fresh noodle stand

*Josh and Becky

*Traveling

*Chinglish signage

*The food cart by our apartment

*Being employed

*The Fabric Market

*Angela: Chinese English teacher extraordinaire

*Making faces at babies on the Metro

*Laughing at things that aren’t funny

*Trivia night

*My 3-hour stents at Starbucks

*Watching any and every TV show/movie for nighttime entertainment

*RMBs as currency. Love using the coins.


WON’T MISS…

*The pollution

*The mold growing in our apartment

*Our GHETTO apartment in general

*Eating Chinese food every day

*Getting stared down all the time

*My one-hour commute (each way) to work

*Being insanely cold all the time

*Line drying my laundry

*Skype…at least for a while

*Cooking the same food every night

*The traffic and poor driving skills

*Watching people pee on the side of the road

*The smell of rank tofu following me around

*Having an almost non-existent social life

*Wearing the same outfit everyday

*Riding the Metro and the Chinese thief who stole my iPod on it

*Spitting

*My Nokia cell phone that stays together with a hair rubber band

*Wearing 4 layers of clothes daily

*Getting sick every other day

*Not being able to drink from the sink

*Using an Ethernet cord

*Blow-drying myself to get warm

*Being cut off in every line that I get into

*Having more than 6 contacts in my cell phone

*Steamed rice

*Wearing my robe and socks to sleep every night (and wrapping myself into a nighttime burrito)


Excuse me, I have to go now: Duibuqi, wo yao zou

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