Oh, too funny! We also have pleeenty of cockroaches and I too named them! So the first one was Walther and he was living under the dryer.
And the church question as well as the mosquitos only sound too familiar, too. I gave up using perfume and instead found a not too bad smelling repellent… It’s a glamorous life!
Thought of you when I was approached by a very nice South African lady in the park two days ago. Her second question was whether I was a Christian. Her third was whether I was interested in crafty things and fabrics. And then we smiled and drifted our separate ways…
Awe thanks for thinking of me! Was she evangelizing you? Here’s a confession, even though I’m a Christian already, sometimes I like to let people “save” me because it makes them feel so good. Like total strangers telling me about Jesus. It’s bad, right?
She was perfectly nice. Just trying to help a stranger connect in a new place. It all has more to do with me: Growing up in Utah (as a non-Mormon) I probably have an unnecessarily strong (negative) reaction to strangers asking me about religion. Your approach is more friendly.
Oh that’s understandable! I’ve always wanted to visit Utah, it look so pretty from pictures. I imagine you got a lot of questions about faith there. I’m reading all your recent posts now and wondering how you ended up in China. Are you with hotel management?
My husband is an engineer that got sucked into management for a big, int’l electronics company. So, for the time being, we’re all just enjoying the ride of being taken where they need help making/designing things.
Ooh how fun! I wish we could go any as many adventures as you have. One day I think we will! What’s your top destination? Like if you could pick. I want to live in Italy so bad! But who doesn’t?
That’s a really tough question. I tend to think that everyplace has really good and negative points, but I’ll say we really enjoyed our time in Zhuhai, China. Nice friends, fun to learn a new language through full immersion, extreme “exotic/foreign” feeling, but still close enough to Hong Kong/Macau to have a taste of home from time to time. But, if we moved back it would all be different. Cambridge, UK was also really special, but for completely different reasons. Travel-wise, I’ve had really lovely experiences in Spain and Turkey.
Ah, the flying cockroaches of Zhuhai… How the hell they could be able to get to a 12th floor???
Oh they easily made it to the 24th floor… I assume crawling up pipes and through stairwells(?). That was in Jida at Hai Wan Hua Yuan. Here in Hong Kong we haven’t had too many (touch wood).
Oh, too funny! We also have pleeenty of cockroaches and I too named them! So the first one was Walther and he was living under the dryer.
And the church question as well as the mosquitos only sound too familiar, too. I gave up using perfume and instead found a not too bad smelling repellent… It’s a glamorous life!
This is is true and so funny! I really love the church ladies one
All things that seem so annoying at first, but that seem to fade into the background over time. I’m guessing you may have church ladies in Korea…
Yes, lots of church ladies…
Thought of you when I was approached by a very nice South African lady in the park two days ago. Her second question was whether I was a Christian. Her third was whether I was interested in crafty things and fabrics. And then we smiled and drifted our separate ways…
Awe thanks for thinking of me! Was she evangelizing you? Here’s a confession, even though I’m a Christian already, sometimes I like to let people “save” me because it makes them feel so good. Like total strangers telling me about Jesus. It’s bad, right?
She was perfectly nice. Just trying to help a stranger connect in a new place. It all has more to do with me: Growing up in Utah (as a non-Mormon) I probably have an unnecessarily strong (negative) reaction to strangers asking me about religion. Your approach is more friendly.
Oh that’s understandable! I’ve always wanted to visit Utah, it look so pretty from pictures. I imagine you got a lot of questions about faith there.
I’m reading all your recent posts now and wondering how you ended up in China. Are you with hotel management?
My husband is an engineer that got sucked into management for a big, int’l electronics company. So, for the time being, we’re all just enjoying the ride of being taken where they need help making/designing things.
Ooh how fun! I wish we could go any as many adventures as you have. One day I think we will! What’s your top destination? Like if you could pick. I want to live in Italy so bad! But who doesn’t?
That’s a really tough question. I tend to think that everyplace has really good and negative points, but I’ll say we really enjoyed our time in Zhuhai, China. Nice friends, fun to learn a new language through full immersion, extreme “exotic/foreign” feeling, but still close enough to Hong Kong/Macau to have a taste of home from time to time. But, if we moved back it would all be different. Cambridge, UK was also really special, but for completely different reasons. Travel-wise, I’ve had really lovely experiences in Spain and Turkey.
Ah, the flying cockroaches of Zhuhai… How the hell they could be able to get to a 12th floor???
Oh they easily made it to the 24th floor… I assume crawling up pipes and through stairwells(?). That was in Jida at Hai Wan Hua Yuan. Here in Hong Kong we haven’t had too many (touch wood).