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Q: What for you is a typical day in China?
For me it's get up late, go to the market for food and wonder when the people there who I now know pretty well will stop laughing every time I say another word in Chinese, go home and cook, maybe study a little Chinese, have a look online and see what you good folks have to say for yourselves, plan lessons, teach, buy beer, drink beer, buy beer, drink beer, repeat as needed, sleep. Throw in a load of cigarettes, some nappy changes, a few baby feeds, maybe a movie, Xbox break or game of pool amongst that lot and you have my typical day. I'm sure the wife is in there somewhere too.
So what about you?
Ohhhhh martian i think your question has been overlooked so i will start it off
Up early for shower, have a little breakfast, then go and meet my lift to the factory.
After 12-13 hrs sweating my balls off, stopping for food and cigarettes of course, i get a lift back to my apartment, sometimes stopping off for a few beers in the street.
Then its shower again, more beer, skype the loved ones at home, and then bed, and when i wake up i can do it all over again
Hell i love china
Thats not sarcastic by the way !!!!! i really am enjoying my time here
mArtiAn:
Well bless you for that littlemick, and I must say, it's good to hear a sweatshop worker with something 'positive' to say. Coh! For a change.
Work days,
Get up 7.30, brush teeth, shower etc. Go to work, get to work 8.40, cup of instant coffee and an apple. 9.00 either start teaching or if no lessons start lesson planning. 12.00 go home for lunch, 1.40pm get back to work 2nd cup of coffee, teach or lesson planning until 5pm then go home. Get home 5.30 study Chinese till 6.30 and dinner. 7.30 - 8.30 free time computer reading, etc. 8.30 daughter's bath time then bedtime story, (for her NOT me) and then free time until 10 - 10.30 when if working next day shave and shower otherwise shower and bed.
Non - working days.
Wife and daughter get up at 7.30 I stay in bed till 8.45 then get up. Read online news change daughters nappy and study Chinese till about 11.00, more nappies wash daughter and lunch about 12.30, put daughter (and wife) down for afternoon nap, and back to Chinese till about 3pm. 3pm take daughter to swimming pool and mess around in water, 5pm back to apartment and free time till dinner but nappy changes are all mine on days 'off', 6.30 dinner 7.30 - 8.30 computer, 8.30 daughter bath / bedtime story, 9.30 BEER!!!!
So yeah, I'm rather predictable.
working day:
get up at 6:30, breakfast, tea, and about 7:30 go to work, few hours of paperwork and hurrying up my dear friends on production department, slowing down QC and so on.., then lunch, then work again (and chinese in spare time).
afternoon back home, cooking time (I love it), quick shower and go to the city (walking) for about 2 hours, then back home
free day:
get up 7-9:00, go to market for supply of vegetables and meat, then breakfast (cooking time!), and reloading fridge, preparing meats in different marinates for whole week, and so on, then cleaning apartment... noon nap, then afternoon relax in the city, making photos etc.
evening still at home (until I find somebody to share it 
), or another passage thru the city, and some small shopping maybe
I'm predictable too at the moment 
about sweating (like some of You declared)... sure... but i sweat less since I learned that spicy food helps to deal wit it. really. try it (if You dare 
)
wake up.........work.........eat.....go out with someone........go back home.......watch TV or serve the internet......sleep.....woke up.........work...........eat.....go out with someone......go back home.......watch TV or serve the internet............sleep
mArtiAn:
So wait there, what was it you do after you eat again, i'm confused?
Createach:
go out with someone to a KTV ro a club or something like that
Createach:
haha........hookers are overrated...i prefer Chinese female English teachers...........LOL
work,cook,internet,sleep
Createach:
THIS DUDE LIVES THE CHINESE DREAM!!!!............ROCK ON!!!!
wake up at around 8 am. brush..drink milk if any in the fridge..put a dose of snus (sometimes two)..put on clothes..pack computer..prepare fresh coffee (about 1L) in the office..open websites to read some news..see if any interesting questions posted in echinacities..after about an hour start to work (sometimes i check websites during lunch time too)..go for lunch (mostly home)..spend 1-2 hours..come back to office, another dose of snus..now time for tea...work, check mails..at 5 pm go home and running...at 6:30 pm again back to office...chat with friends/family online...go home around 8-9..eat something light...if any movie downloaded on that day watch..if not read some books (if interesting read till 4 am)...get up around 8 am...same routine most of the days
On friday..instead of running go home at 6 pm..at 7 meet with colleagues and go for badminton..return home at around 10-10:30 pm..take shower watch movie and sleep late, wake up late..
On saturyday morning go for shopping (i usually buy things for one week)..cook good food..do some laundry..clean room..either come to office or read or watch some movies..sunday mostly office....
there could be some group dinners with a slight changes in the routine but 80% remains same....
After two years being here, I have decided that I must go out of China at least for few years even if I wish to continue here...
Hugh.G.Rection:
I'm glad you asked, I didn't want to look dumb so didn't ask. 
Hakupatasa:
Oh...no problem to ask..
it is just a smokeless tobacco in a form of small pouch to put it under the lip (upper or lower)...it is a Swedish style...they have it in loose form also but mostly common in Indian continent. Germans use snuff which is a tobacco in fine powder form and getting nicotine through nose...Before the government in Sweden and some measure in Germany banned smoking at most places and discourage people to smoke, cigarette was considered rich man's stuff. And, smokeless tobacco was for poor people..
Now, cigarette belongs to poor people (just kind of saying) and snus or snuff is for health conscious (Hell knows how it is beneficial for health! I doubt)
I was not used to any form of tabacco before coming to China..I resisted for almost two years here. Slowly, taking some snus from my colleague now and then, I am into it (my fault, not his)
Shit!!!! now I can even buy it on taobao.
