Commentary:
Bargaining
Things I missed
Banquets
Foreign and Female
Flag Raising
Being Foreign
Usual Day
Grocery Store
Pollution
Media
Everything's Fine
Child Policies
Driving
Starting Over
Authority
Guanxi
Poverty
Dirt
Doing Business
Being Vegetarian
Dress Codes
Last Minute
Objectification
Dating, Sex, and Marriage
Toilet Evolution
Friendship
Things Change
Teaching:
A Student's Day
A Teacher's Day
A Preschool Day
Being an Asset
Authority
Discipline
Chinese Methods
Gifts
Looking Back:
Things I Miss
Things I Don't Miss
Oddities
Evolution
Patriotism
Culture Shock
Photos:
Beijing
Around Luoyang 1
Around Luoyang 2
Around Henan
Village Life
Xi'an
Different Schools
Travel:
Trains
General Travel Tips
Food
City Travel
Guides vs Books
Return to Project Janel
- Anything with mustard on it
- Falafel
- Anything made with a chickpea
- Talking fast
- Talking with slang
- Cheese
- Feminism
- Friends
- American bread
- Consistent electricity
- Consistent running water
- Hot running water
- Baths, though I would have settled for feeling clean occasionally
- Central heating
- Ice in drinks
- Drinking tap water
- Eating raw fruits and vegetables
- Breathing clean air
- Comfortable beds (most mattresses were boards with nice cloth on them)
- Feeling in control
- Feeling respected as a person, not as an object
- Black beans
- Diet Coke
- Toilet stalls (I didn't mind the squat toilets since they're cleaner, but I never got over the lack of privacy)
- Planning things in advance, not doing everything on the spur of the moment
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Comments, questions, suggestions: jhanmer@projectjanel.org