1. Toilets are holes in the ground. They are just not going to be up to your sanitary standards. "Western Style" toilets are also known as "Handicap" toilets and are far and few between in public. Oh, and BYOTP. Here's a nice one:
2. Don't drink the water. Need I say more.
3. Get used to cigarette smoke, because everyone smokes. Everywhere.
4. Your birthday cake might have tomatoes and parsley on it.
5. Your food will probably still have the ability to look at you while you're eating it. If not, it's probably made of squid paste.
6. Your electrical items will not play nice with their electricity. Buy adapters and converters.
7. Be comfortable having your picture taken 800 times a day by perfect strangers--with or without the "admirer" in the photo, too. These girls came up to me in the park, giggling, and asking to take a picture of me. I felt the only polite thing to do was to return the favor.
8. Pedestrians do not have the right of way. Bicycles and scooters, either. Be prepared to see stacks of people dangling from one bicycle, passing comfortably through the two inch space between buses.
9. Signs, even when they're in English, may not be very helpful.
2 comments:
Love it!
I'm finally catching up on your blog! Loved the Lost in Translation posts. So funny I had to share with Scott. I also told my SIL, whose mom is currently ministering in China, to check out your blog.
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