So yeah, China.

Aug 30, 2009 13:39

I'm still not entirely sure how I ended up here, I just went with the general flow of going abroad for another year and somehow ended up in a rather nice job in a rather nice city in a country that will look pretty good on my CV but that speaks a language I cannot understand at all ( Read more... )

work, foods, china

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ingenious76 August 30 2009, 07:57:22 UTC
Very well thank you. Good to see you. :)

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gnillot August 30 2009, 13:05:16 UTC
Jealous of your adventure! Oh well, guess I have to hope that the Dubai job comes through. 9 months in Dubai on company expense sounds ok to me :p

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hellison August 30 2009, 14:28:02 UTC
All going well so far then, sounds like quite the adventure! Having a lazy bank holiday weekend here, in the rain. Currently torn between going riding and lounging round watching Sense and Sensibility. Life is full of difficult decisions...

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malvino August 30 2009, 14:29:34 UTC
and seamonsters?

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hellison August 30 2009, 14:31:36 UTC
heh, sadly this is monsterless version. A few giant squid would liven it up no end!

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malvino September 1 2009, 05:08:02 UTC
I guess the street guys are the equivalent of the guys selling hotdogs in New York. Apparently later in the year they sell things ilke chestnuts, just like the UK (...used to be, now we only get them in shopping sotres at Christmas).

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malvino September 1 2009, 11:28:25 UTC
Actually, it's just a few sites that are blocked, youtube, facebook, blogger and such. You can get round them, but it's slow and not really worthwile. Apart from there there don't seem to be any restrictions, everything is pretty open and the people aren't hugely sensitive about anything, people are people everywhere.

The oddest thing I've found so far is that going out for a meal is pretty cheap, going out for drinks is pretty expensive (comparatively) - 5 beers in a pub costs about the same as a meal for 5 in a restaurant. But then there's no real culture of going out for alcoholic drinks, so it makes sense - if the pubs were cheap people would spend hours in them and drink very little, just use them as social clubs, and the places would go under.

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