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Q: What sort of things in China makes you realize your not in Kansas anymore?
In other words what are some of the things that happen here that remind you, your not back home...
You know you're not in Kansas anymore when things are no longer in black and white. It's actually that simple of a test.
mattaya:
Oh so we will find a gray spot...is what you are saying....a little in-between?
deefoe:
mattaya, i think daben was referring to your Oz reference...it was originally in black and white and alsoliving in china is not black or white
crimochina:
matayayaya is not really aware of the film he just learned the term in school
DaBen:
mattaya, I'm gonna try my best to be nice and let you continue to pretend to be whoever you want to be. But I'm going to put a time out chair in the corner and whenever you make a comment that doesn't make sense or doesn't follow the "character" you want to pretend to be, I'm just going to go tell you to go sit in your timeout chair. (But I won't promise to not make a smartass comment before telling you to "go sit in your chair")
freakboy:
I disagree I think China is very black and white, there is no color at all it is either yes or no, even when they say Maybe they mean no.
Shining_brow:
What about "maybe yes"??? If it was in B&W, how did ppl know the Yellow Brick Road was actually yellow?
DaBen:
People knew the yellow brick road was yellow because the movie changes from black and white, into color when she lands in OZ. Hence my comment.
I knew when my whole house got blown away and did not end up in OZ..
1) Mountainous terrain that could hardly be described as "wide-open".
2) Conspicuous lack of sunflowers.
everytime i see a bus driver pass up on 2 empty lanes to drive really fast behind a biker with their child on the back and i mean they like to drive really fast within a foot or 2 of the bike.
Everyday things mostly....
I understand I am in a different country and I am more than happy to comply with that.
Stupid, ignorant, and downright retarded I am not.
But, such is everyday here!
When I order a Caesar salad at a "western" restaurant and it comes with watery honey mustard dressing and is revolting.
When I go out to a local restaurant and chicken feet are put on my table with peanuts as an appy.
When I first typed "facebook" in my browser and it came up as page not found.
When I was first served beer, and it tasted like water.
When I found a cool expat website, and discovered there were trolls pretending to be Americans.
freakboy:
yeah I hear you about the salad, the first ham and cheese sandwich I got here had Ketchup instead of mustard and duofu instead of Cheese. Something they just don't get, western food is one of them.
giadrosich:
Chicken feet!!! Don't get me started on chicken feet! I mean, for the love of Pete, how much meat can one get off of chicken feet?!!!
Everything. I can't even escape it in my own bedroom, the windows aren't sealed so I can hear people talking outside. The real question would be "How could you possibly mistake this place for Kansas?"
When I got off the 14-hour flight, and found I was in Oz....
(oh, wait, that doesn't really make any sense...).
Umm, how about, as soon as I wake up... a) my air-matress is deflated again - reminding me I can't easily get a nice soft mattress here. Then, b) the hwk hwk hwk ptth of the guy downstairs clearing his lungs. On some days, I get reminded by c) the school-girl yelling at the top of her lungs for her friend to come down (or open the door)... at 6am. Possibly also d), the fireworks going off at 6:20am.... Thus, everyday, before I even get out of bed, I know I'm not back home... in the fabled land of Oz 
Let's see...driving like a manic (just to survive) and nobody caring, and (as mentioned above) chicken feet (!!!!!), walking into a bookstore and having to look for something to buy with pictures, watching someone lite a firecracker roll which is the size of a semi-truck tire, smokes for under $1, chinese wine strong enough to curl your hair, and, from the "Feed My Ego" departement, 19-year old girls telling me (with a straight face), that "You're cute." Go figure.
When I watch movies like "Cowboys & Aliens" on my computer because there is no other choice for entertainment.
(Though, in hindsight, slamming a door on my head repeatably would have been more entertaining than watching that movie.)
Jnusb416:
Yeah, that movie was...just another example of a great idea that was poorly executed.
-no respect for environment
-complaints about power use but leave doors to buildings open in winter
-poor internet and phone reception
-simple hygeine solutions made difficult
-freezing dorms and classrooms
-complaining expats like me
-oh....never mind
I realized it when getting on a bus causes chaos and resulting in injury along with a lil old Chinese lady pulling at you and cursing you for not letting her on the bus first. She came out of nowhere. But I was literally stuck between and bus and a hard place. Chinese people may be small but they are something fierce!!!
I realized it when getting on a bus causes chaos and resulting in injury along with a lil old Chinese lady pulling at you and cursing you for not letting her on the bus first. She came out of nowhere. But I was literally stuck between and bus and a hard place. Chinese people may be small but they are something fierce!!!
When I run into so many foreigners that look as if they were recently thrown out of Bellevue Hospital, New York, or the Royal Vic in Montreal -- the kind of people that one would never run into normally at home.
