Sitting on G, waiting on O

As I type this, I am stuck in an airport in Shenzen. Our flight back to Putian has been delayed due to a storm. It's been over an hour and there isn't the slightest update on our status. 

Last night was we went to the KTV again. I think I'm bored with that now. The whole language barrier holds back most of the fun that could be had there.

Before KTV we ate at a Korean restaurant. I've never ate Korean food before last night. I'll probably never eat it again.  The food had great flavor, but it was far too spicy for my sensitive tongue. Most of the dishes are based around cold cabbage as well. I'll try anything once but not always twice.

Today we are just traveling. We said our goodbyes to the great people of the Donguan office and now we're headed back to Putian to clean up the mess that happened yesterday. I'm already thinking about when I can get in bed.

Random observations of the day.

As we walked around downtown DG yesterday I noticed several women walking around holding hands. It struck me as a little odd, so I asked about it. I was told that women often walk the streets holding hands and men walk with arms around each other mostly for safety. 

I just remembered when we had pizza the other night for dinner, it was served with plastic gloves. Everyone was expected to wear them to keep the grease off of your fingers. Of course the Chinese one size fits all doesn't necessarily apply to my american sized hands . I made due.

Groundhog day

After a full days work we went out to eat and shopping last night. The downtown shopping district is centered around a mall that is anchored by a (cringe) Walmart. We first went to the DVD store where I managed to pick up several new/early releases. I didn't think the quality would be great considering i was paying the equivilant of $2 US combined with the fact that most of them are still in theaters. I was pleasantly surprised that all of those I purchased are perfect quality DVDs. We hit up a few more shops and headed home. The day was pretty uneventful.

I've discovered that I am getting lost in my own imagination while sitting through some of these meetings. Obviously I don't understand anything that is being said in the exchange of conversation around me, so I started making up sitcom scenarios in my head for the people around me. I struggled to keep a straight face the rest of the day. I think I'm going crazy

Day...It doesn't matter

Time is a blur. I've given up trying to figure out how long I've been here and I've also given up on trying to remember what day/ time it is in the states.

Saturday nightwe went to a KTV, which is very difficult to explain if you're never been. Simply put it's a private karaoke party where you sing and play drinking games with random house Chinese girls that don't speak a lick of English. It was interesting, but fun.

I spent yesterday traveling from Putian to Dongguan. Dongguan is a much bigger city, and more advanced.

Today I'll work in the office, and go shopping in the evening.  should be fun.

Some random notes:

Chinese seem to serve hot water with every meal, they don't drink anything else when they eat. Apparently it aids in digestion. They also serve hot water as just a snack.

1 fried egg is served with many meals. All of my meals at restaurants here have been served with one fried egg on the side. I had a room service cheeseburger last night at the new hotel, and of course there's a fried egg on the plate with the fries. Weird.

I haven't taken too many pics lately, but I did update flickr with some new ones. I'll take more when  I go shopping tonight

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35793320@N07/