Day 1 in China
Ok, so I don't think I'm allowed to read blogs in while in China, perhaps its a security issue. It's about 7am here in Shanghai and I already have been up for at least 2 hours...gotta love jetlag. This morning I realized that Chinese television sucks. I don't understand what any of the shows are about, and the only channel that's in English is some dumb business news station. I found 2 stations that showed cartoons but the cartoons weren't that great either. My mom and I are going to go for a walk in a little bit to buy breakfast and I think I'm going to buy some English movies this afternoon so that I'll have something to watch in the mornings.
So here's a review of my long flight to China: I landed in Tokyo last night and had to use the bathroom. As I was walking in the bathroom I noticed 2 girls walking from stall to stall, I followed them to the back part of the bathroom and they went into their stalls. I looked left and I saw a sqauty-potty, with a nice picture drawn on the side on the stall to show that its a squatty-potty. At first I had thought I walked into the wrong bathroom, but then I realized that I was in Asia and people here use squatty-pottys. But do not worry...there were normal toilets on my right so I used those. My goal is to not use a squatty-potty the entire time I am here.
In China, I had to wait in line to clear customs. The line was super long so I decided to take my camera out and take a picture of the "Welcome to Shanghai" sign. A customs police than came over to me and told me I can't take pictures...oops, I now have a rare photo of a "Welcome to Shanghai" sign on my camera...perhaps I can sell it on Ebay:-)
Finally, this morning I got blasted in the shower. It was like that Sienfield episode where Kramer buys a super powerful, illegal showerhead. The showerhead was so powerful that I can only stay under the water for 10secs before needing a quick water break...crazy engineers!
So those are the happenings as of the last 24 or maybe its been 48 hours (I lost a day traveling so I'm a little confused)...hope all in well.
So here's a review of my long flight to China: I landed in Tokyo last night and had to use the bathroom. As I was walking in the bathroom I noticed 2 girls walking from stall to stall, I followed them to the back part of the bathroom and they went into their stalls. I looked left and I saw a sqauty-potty, with a nice picture drawn on the side on the stall to show that its a squatty-potty. At first I had thought I walked into the wrong bathroom, but then I realized that I was in Asia and people here use squatty-pottys. But do not worry...there were normal toilets on my right so I used those. My goal is to not use a squatty-potty the entire time I am here.
In China, I had to wait in line to clear customs. The line was super long so I decided to take my camera out and take a picture of the "Welcome to Shanghai" sign. A customs police than came over to me and told me I can't take pictures...oops, I now have a rare photo of a "Welcome to Shanghai" sign on my camera...perhaps I can sell it on Ebay:-)
Finally, this morning I got blasted in the shower. It was like that Sienfield episode where Kramer buys a super powerful, illegal showerhead. The showerhead was so powerful that I can only stay under the water for 10secs before needing a quick water break...crazy engineers!
So those are the happenings as of the last 24 or maybe its been 48 hours (I lost a day traveling so I'm a little confused)...hope all in well.
posted by chen at 5:59 PM
4 Comments:
You should post a picture of a squaty-potty...I'm not sure what one is but I think I saw a few in Kosovo.
Chen whatever you do don't get arrested for writing on your blog. It's not worth it even though we want to know what is going on.
But if you do get arrested, be sure to take pictures.
No worries on the toilet situation...I plan on posting an evolution of the toilet system throughout the years once I take pictures of the dirthole my relatives use.
Also, no worries on the arrests...my dad's pimpin out here in China, I can get his driver to help me escape the clutches of the law...although we might get lost as the driver isn't so great with directions and I can't read Chinese.
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