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Q: Your weirdest up to date experience in China
We have all been there. Being stalked by a girl or by an overly friendly male (both happened to me only in China), being stared at (sometimes for more than 20 minutes at a time) by various groups of Chinese people who seem to be more than very astonished by an existence of an ethnicity different in appearance from the Han people, but let’s face it in China it’s all too common. I wonder what the single weirdest thing you have gone through while in Zhongguo was.
Getting drunk in the Hospital together with Hospital's head in Jixian, Hebei.
I don't know too many (normal) people, who had to be carried out of the Hospital drunk.
Chinese in Jixian all say 'zhi bu dao' and not 'bu zhi dao' like elsewhere in China.
P.S.
Most of my adult family members all work in the Hospitals .....LOLOLO
Englteachted:
You are a poorly behaved foreigner, making Chinese get drunk. Chinese never did that until foreigners got here.
icnif77:
I asked my MDs: 'Have you ever been drunk in the Hospital?'
All replied 'No, (what's wrong with you?)', then my China thing....My mom commented: 'You are different...' me: 'why me? What did I do?' LOL
I am not sure, why Chinese call Maotai 'white wine'. I agreed, we'll drink wine, not 40% sweet booze.
Getting drunk in the Hospital together with Hospital's head in Jixian, Hebei.
I don't know too many (normal) people, who had to be carried out of the Hospital drunk.
Chinese in Jixian all say 'zhi bu dao' and not 'bu zhi dao' like elsewhere in China.
P.S.
Most of my adult family members all work in the Hospitals .....LOLOLO
Englteachted:
You are a poorly behaved foreigner, making Chinese get drunk. Chinese never did that until foreigners got here.
icnif77:
I asked my MDs: 'Have you ever been drunk in the Hospital?'
All replied 'No, (what's wrong with you?)', then my China thing....My mom commented: 'You are different...' me: 'why me? What did I do?' LOL
I am not sure, why Chinese call Maotai 'white wine'. I agreed, we'll drink wine, not 40% sweet booze.
I don't think I can choose just one, so here are a couple... you choose:
- saw two police officers get into a fight with each other in a police station (I think both were drunk too)...
- went with a doctor to a pharmaceutical company for a dinner and fishing, we all got drunk the owner of the company admitted he was Canadian (just had the passport, he was Chinese)... then we all went outside to fish in the factory lake...
- saw a drunken Chinese guy in a stupor... at night market... all of the sudden... hulk smashed the table and he tried to bottle the guy at the other table nearest to us... they ganged on him, sent him to the hospital
- rode drunk with some foreigners on a motorcycle, stopped in font of the police station (accidentally at night) with beers in our hand... cop came out... told us to "drive slowly"... none of us had licenses and were still drinking beer...
And on and on...
icnif77:
I saw them sleeping in the car during the lunch break ......driver's door wide open, one leg outside with two coppers in dream ...on front seats. First, I thought they are ill/need help. I stopped and looked what's going on.
My first China, city Huachuan, Heilongjiang, late September, i.e. not too cold, yet. City is in the middle of taiga or tundra, more than 6h by bus from Harbin.
The last company I worked for in China after 5 years teaching, hired me on and I quickly became the "top" teacher at my center...mostly from experience and a wealth of accumulated materials...the center promptly went and fired the other American with little or no cause other than the "students don't like you", which pretty much made me the main draw.( the American was a good guy and proficient in Chinese and I always saw him making an effort) after about three months there with China becoming more hostile towards American enterprises, the company hired a young Brit. This Brit arrived to an unabashed plethora of contrived fawning and accolade..to the extent the company made a very large presentation of awarding him "top" teacher after only being in China one month and never teaching before. (And I'm not one to e Dorsey such competition amongst colleagues...I've always tried to do my best work..that's all and was glad to share it with whom ever I worked with and for) He was also noticeably adept at pandering to Chinese precedent and the awards and accolades for Brit and the derogatory tone towards Americans all coincided with Xi jinpungs visits to the US and Britain...this center had quite a bit of a military prescence in terms of the student and staff population ...later, after completing my contract, I discovered that the Brit left with a month or two of my own departure...as if he was brought in solely for the reason of undermining my abilities and qualifications and professionalism.
It was as weird as it was humiliating of an experience
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