I got my Chinese roommate a few gifts today, which I will be excited to "present" to her. Haha. I got her some chocolate and peanut butter Buckeyes to represent Ohio, a UNC hat to represent UNC, obviously, and a piece of Chinese calligraphy I made last semester in my Chinese calligraphy class. It has the four elements in Chinese characters, but in China, they have five elements, so I will just tell her that this present represents the USA. I am excited to meet her and I hope we become good friends in the next two months.
I met someone today at Starbucks (Vocab lesson #1: 星巴克 - Xing ba ke) that had worked in Hong Kong for 9 months and told me that people that haven't had asthma or allergies sometimes come back with respiratory problems because of all the pollution. He also said that the pollution sometimes causes the sky to be bright orange during the day. I know China has been trying to fix some of these problems to cater to the Olympic games, but they could simply be putting pollution on hold instead of fixing the problem. Something I will have to pay attention to. Respiratory problems wouldn't be too fun either...
This man also said his experience was the best experience he's had.
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