I'm finally back in the city of Shanghai, where I belong.
I expected winter weather to be starting already--typically, the not-too-hot-and-not-too-cold autumn season lasts just several weeks. But it turns out I arrived a couple weeks before the onset of the cold (and bitingly wet) Chinese winter.
(Xujiahui in autumn...this is the section of town where I'll be living.)
My stomach is behaving reasonably well (despite what happened Saturday night, when I got carried along with a local cell group to an all-you-can-eat Japanese BBQ place). I wish I'd had a camera to take pictures of what we were eating...the foods were fascinating, to say the least.
And I noticed this morning that my sinuses are re-adjusting to Shanghai pollution--which means I carry several packets of tissues in my backpack at all times. And, despite the admonitions of the local government, I feel compelled to abide by traditional Chinese custom...i.e. I have to spit a lot.
(Part of the Chinese government's anti-spitting campaign...and probably a great boost to the world's largest tissue manufacturers.)
I expected winter weather to be starting already--typically, the not-too-hot-and-not-too-cold autumn season lasts just several weeks. But it turns out I arrived a couple weeks before the onset of the cold (and bitingly wet) Chinese winter.
My stomach is behaving reasonably well (despite what happened Saturday night, when I got carried along with a local cell group to an all-you-can-eat Japanese BBQ place). I wish I'd had a camera to take pictures of what we were eating...the foods were fascinating, to say the least.
And I noticed this morning that my sinuses are re-adjusting to Shanghai pollution--which means I carry several packets of tissues in my backpack at all times. And, despite the admonitions of the local government, I feel compelled to abide by traditional Chinese custom...i.e. I have to spit a lot.
2 comments:
your blog just cracks me up!!! im sitting in this furnace box of a room laughing my head off at the sign, "no spitting everywhere" glad to hear you have fine weather....speaking of i was in florida last week and that was real fine!!! ahhhhh bright sun, reflecting on the various shades of blue....aqua and deep..waters of the atlantic.....and watching longboard surfers...with my friend from florida next to me as we read aloud a book about eucharisteo....ahhhhh nothin like it....well maybe you would argue with that one as you feasted on interesting creatures from japan!!!! you are on our minds here:) keep up the blogs....lovin it, lisa
Thanks, Lisa! Will do...the internet contract in my apartment just expired, so I'm not online much until my roommate figures it out. But, I will get something posted soon!
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