You know when you're in China when...
-You bring tissues with you everywhere - the bathrooms in China do not provide you toilet paper
-Your leg muscles get a work out when using the restroom - so they have what we call "squatters" in China. Instead of a toilet in the stalls of the bathroom there are holes in the floor with a porcelain surrounding that you have to squat over to use the bathroom.
-You see lots of naked children
-You see lots of little children going to the bathroom in the streets - until a certain age toddlers all have pants that have large slits in the buttocks area so when they need to go to the bathroom they simply bend over in the street and go. Sometimes their parents put them over a street drain...sometimes not.
-The word maybe starts most sentences - when Chinese speak English and they ask you to do something they always add maybe to the sentence and make it a statement rather than question. "Maybe you go to dinner with us" "Maybe you teach five more classes" "Maybe you give speech now" etc.
-Men's bellies are displayed for everyone to see - due to the hot weather in China, men often hike up their shirts above their bellies as a way to cool down. It is completely acceptable etiquette and we are just counting the days till the guys in our program start doing it too.
-You get stared at by 80% of the people who pass you - white people are not very common, especially in Shenzhen. It is not rude to stare in China so people freely will watch you till you pass by - they will even turn around on their bikes and motorcycles to continue to watch until the last moment
-You start staring at white people - Again there aren't many, so when you see another white person it is very exciting and you find yourself staring along with the Chinese
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