In less than 24 hours, I’ll be home. Well, not home, but you get the point. I’ve already been in airports so many times this year. I’ve been exhausted, scrambling to make my flights to other cities in China or to Hong Kong,…
My life in China in 4 drinks.
I never thought I’d spend so much time each day thinking about drinking water. But I am, I am consumed both by water that I drink (it’s often lukewarm and gross) and water that I don’t drink (8 glasses a day? that’s not gonna happen).
Understanding Chinese social etiquette: a primer
It was a 95ºF day and they were serving lukewarm beer. One of the hardest things about being in China (aside from the language, the language is quite hard), has been knowing how to behave around people in public. Yes, the expectations…
Never drink the tap water and 4 other things I learned on my first day in Shanghai
1. I broke the no. 1 rule about visiting China just one day in. I accidentally drank the tap water – a decision I regretted almost immediately. The next few hours were markedly unpleasant, largely because my stomach has much…