What Have I Discovered Lately?
1) There is an endless supply of red shoes to buy. My new "Nike" sneakers.
2) Good bread is vital. We have been devouring bread from our new favorite bakery, Euro-Bake. And last Sunday we drove into Dalian to make our own pizza at the bakery. YUM YUM YUM!
Our driver, Liu, is not only a great driver, but a great resource for discovering new things! So even though he knows only a little English and I know only a little Chinese, he is a great teacher. Some things that he's helped me discover...
3) That sweet potatoes cooked in big baking kettles on the street taste way better than sweetened ones at Thanksgiving. Moist, sweet, hot, delicious. Just break them open and eat them plain. And, even purple sweet potatoes are good. Did you know there were purple sweet potatoes? I didn't.
4) Listening to Chinese pop music is fun, even if you don't know the words. Liu and I spend a lot of hours in the car together. Sometimes we listen to his music, sometimes we listen to mine. Luckily, we have similar taste in music, only his is in Chinese, and mine is in English. It turns out that one of my favorite Chinese CDs is a very famous Chinese singer - Jacky Cheung (Zhang Xue You). One time I was wondering why I couldn't remember the words to the song I was humming in my head, then I realized it's because it was Chinese and I don't know the words! Here is a video of one of my favorite songs (song starts at 2:30).
5) There's a really good "fast food" here that's a fried egg wrapped in a thick tortilla. Kind of like a Chinese breakfast burrito.
I've been considering doing a China "home-stay"....finding a way to spend a day with a Chinese family to see more about how their life is the same and different than ours. I have 7 months to figure out how...
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