Foreign monkey king or alien?

In your life, someone u met, be your friend forever, some of them I'm not sure you have chance to see him again. But now I have some friends that we'll keep in touch forever. They r gentleman like, polite,impressed me at our first sight, I like these guys at first time. They make me feel easy. It's rushed for me to follow them out of my city, ShangHai, went to Yiwu ZheJiang province, when we only met each other one day first time, at the second day (26The Feb 2005). I accompanied them to help them understand my country -China, & be their interpreter also.

I knew they need someone to guide them. So I appeared, to give them my power. To me, it's really exciting trip. It lasted more than 20 days. We spent these days together. The day we got on the train, it's a preliminary. On that five hours long train, we chated, we played cards, and I taught them some Chinese. We have a lot of fun. My new friends, they are from Pakistan. One guy's name is Shuja (it sounds like chinese word, SHuja means go to sleep),another guy' name is ShaJi (it have meaning in Chinese also, it means Cutel chicken).I couldn't help myself to laugh when I heard their names.

To them, this is first time to come to China. On the train, Chinese passengers expressed their friendliness to them, and smiled to them. They enjoyed this trip happily.

One word I taught to ShaJi was how to call teacher in chinese. We can say Shi Fu. And he repeated my word. He 's tone just liked monkey king (It's a character of Chinese famous fairy tale (THE TRIP OF WESTERN). So he had his nickname -monkey king. In China, we use chopsticks as forks,spoon and knife. It's new to them. Because it's first time to use it. It's my job to let them learn how to use them.But it's so hard for them. But they enjoyed it. To catch food to your mouth, their contentment did prove the fun they got. When we finished the lunch, Shaji wanted to keep the chopsticks he used, they kindly gave them as souvenir. I can tell, Shaji is more naughty then monkey king.

My friends' feature are different then Chinese people Features. When they walked on the streets, or ate in restaurants, always arose some Chinese to get them noticed. At first, they felt uneasy, so many people stared at them. I told them their are curious. Chinese are friendly, they are kind, it's not a good habit to stare at someone. But they didn't want to hurt you. On our trip, every Chinese gave their kindly smile.

(Article Written by: Ms.Caroline Lee)
Dated: 25th March 2005 Shanghai P.R.China

Monkey king

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