HATE them. i had never seen one till i went to china. the first time there was one in my kitchen i freaked out and ran to get the apartment security guard to come and kill it.
Gee. I don't know whether to think you lucky or not. You got through most of your life without ever having seen one? Are there no cockroaches in scotland or what? But it's kinda scary to be suddenly thrown in such a crazy situation too.
it's too wet and cold here for cockroaches. you do get insects but they are very small and don't tend to come into houses. easily avoidable.
the guard was nice about it. i was the only foreigner there, and the first female foreigner that had ever lived in the village (there had been one man before) and so i was really a novelty. everyone expected all sorts of weird behaviour. the guards were always really cool about my craziness cos i was so polite to them. and i gave them cigarettes.
it's weird being a novelty. there are good and bad aspects to it. sometimes it's wearing and you want to be treated like a regular person. but you do get away with a lot of shit you wouldn't normally.
erm...weary you mean? There was once when I went back to Burma during my holidays, I was going around in my t-short and shorts and got quite a bit of uncomfortable staring cuz it's not common there. /=
yeah, i mean it's tiresome. most places in the world you don't stand out immediately as a foreigner but it china.....you get a little tired of being referred to as laowai or gwei mei and people staring and pointing as you walk down the street. the south of china isn't cold. beijing is freezing, but guangzhou is really hot.
haha caucasians get it bad in asia, but i think blacks get it worse. d= lao wai still sounds all right enough... guei mei has some sort of demeaning air hanging over it. /= okay, i'm too emotional.i heard the women in guang zhou are really beautiful... or is that hang zhou? *sheepish*
it has to be hangzhou. guangzhou women tend to be VERY small and loud. lao wai in itself isn't an insult. but when people shout it at you as you walk by it can be damn annoying. gwei mei is just plain rude. it's true though that black people have a much harder time in china. a black scottish teacher came out to the first place i stayed and kids ran away screaming in the streets. literally. in guangzhou there is a large african (mostly nigerian) contingent of foreigners. it's VERY rare to see a chinese girl with them. and it's not because the local girls don't want to date foreigners, the majority of white teachers have chinese girlfriends. my black female friend was actually refused service in a restaurant in guangzhou.
beats me why the discrimination is so biased. o_O how's your friend coping then? it's also irritating when they try to rip you off cuz you're a foreigner. gee.
hmm the situation here ain't that bad but sometimes, ppl are a bit uncomfortable around indians. it's more obvious with children. when i was like 4, there's this incident when my parents were taking me out. on the bus, there were two pairs of double seats facing each other. my parents sat on one pair, and i on the other by myself. then this indian guy came up and i just switched over to my parents. no doubt they were embarassed but the guy took it very nicely. guess that's my shame. /=
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i had never seen one till i went to china. the first time there was one in my kitchen i freaked out and ran to get the apartment security guard to come and kill it.
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So erm, was the security guard nice about it?
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the guard was nice about it. i was the only foreigner there, and the first female foreigner that had ever lived in the village (there had been one man before) and so i was really a novelty. everyone expected all sorts of weird behaviour. the guards were always really cool about my craziness cos i was so polite to them. and i gave them cigarettes.
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it's weird being a novelty. there are good and bad aspects to it. sometimes it's wearing and you want to be treated like a regular person. but you do get away with a lot of shit you wouldn't normally.
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erm...weary you mean? There was once when I went back to Burma during my holidays, I was going around in my t-short and shorts and got quite a bit of uncomfortable staring cuz it's not common there. /=
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the south of china isn't cold. beijing is freezing, but guangzhou is really hot.
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lao wai in itself isn't an insult. but when people shout it at you as you walk by it can be damn annoying. gwei mei is just plain rude. it's true though that black people have a much harder time in china. a black scottish teacher came out to the first place i stayed and kids ran away screaming in the streets. literally. in guangzhou there is a large african (mostly nigerian) contingent of foreigners. it's VERY rare to see a chinese girl with them. and it's not because the local girls don't want to date foreigners, the majority of white teachers have chinese girlfriends. my black female friend was actually refused service in a restaurant in guangzhou.
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hmm the situation here ain't that bad but sometimes, ppl are a bit uncomfortable around indians. it's more obvious with children. when i was like 4, there's this incident when my parents were taking me out. on the bus, there were two pairs of double seats facing each other. my parents sat on one pair, and i on the other by myself. then this indian guy came up and i just switched over to my parents. no doubt they were embarassed but the guy took it very nicely. guess that's my shame. /=
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