I made that last comment...
Just thought I'd say that I made that last comment...
And I hope it doesn't offend anyone who is Chinese...
In all honesty I have a really good love/hate relationship going on with the Chinese...
They all love me, and I hate all them...
hehe...Once again, just kidding...
But in all honesty that's the way it is when you spend a lot of time in another country, I think most people who stay abroad for more than 6 months will tell you about the same... you have days when everything's okay you have fun you learn about the culture, the language, and other days you absolutely hate everything to do with the country and its people and if you hear one more person, be they child, man, woman, elderly, or dog say 老外 (laowai = foreigner)you think you could kill one or two...thousand and still not feel much better...
But that's the way it is, here in this place called 中国 (zhongguo - lit: the middle country commonly known as China) where foreigners are few and wide and chinese are many and plentiful...
I did have an interesting conversation, in chinese :), about the different dialects and things here in china, as opposed to the mutal intelligibility of British and American English, tonight with a couple of people here...it's encounters like this that renew your faith in the people and the country...
Note: I mean absolutely no disrespect to any Chinese in China or abroad by these statements, they are merely my feelings and my attempts at a joke, be it funny or not...And I do not actually hate all Chinese nor China, as I find it a pretty interesting, and rather safe country...full of good things and bad things mind you...but altogether just different...