I've just landed in the States and have completely given up trying to sleep on these flights anymore. Good times, but take this entry with a grain or two of salt.
If you've met an expat living in China, you'll probably here of something called a China-day. This can manifest itself as China-week, China-month, or the elusive and saddening, China-year. There are certain frustrations out here that are commonplace, traffic in all shapes and forms (walking, bicycles, cars), general differences in common sense, and completely different standards for acceptable procedures. Anyway, a China-day (in my opinion) is a day when many of these minor irritants are compounded, along with any other frustrations that occur normally, like say...Mondays. It's funny, a bit ignorant, and generally an acceptable response to "how are ya?"
Not all of these quirks and nuance of China are annoying. Back during the All China Games that we hosted recently, several of us noticed that the port-o-potties, or port-o-squatties as we feel they should have been named, were manufactured and patented in the US, in Minnesota of all places. Long-winded sentence aside, it was something that made you scratch your head and then just shrug in acceptance: China is full of some weird stuff, one example being portable squattie toilets manufactured solely for Asian countries, by an American manufacturer... gotta love it.
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