Hongkers Kongkers Round 2
Friday, April 7th, 2006
Well, the 2nd time today? I must be in the zone or something. I think I am in desperate need of a travel partner, there is only so much fun you can have on your own. To be honest, all the other travellers are wierd. After 2 months in a pretty much all-Chinese environment, and then suddenly seeing new Laowais, is a bit strange. We Westerners are a funny-looking lot! I feel a bit self-conscious when I see other Westerners, thinking that I must look quite foreign too.
One of the great things about here though is that you don’t get stared at. In Zhengzhou you were a constant and obvious point of the Chinese regard. Outright staring, sometimes it was quite amazing to watch people look at you with such surprise or curiosity. There are so many foreigners here that it’s nice to blend in or be ignored a bit again. I can’t really sa, but there are a lot of different nationalities here, but it seems to work really well. I haven’t been here very long at all, but there is something here that works. Maybe it’s the fact that it used to be a colony so everyone is used to getting on or what. Watever it is it works here, or that’s the feeling I get so far. It feels very safe and I like it. There are ‘no spitting’ signs but I haven’t seen a single loogy since I have been here. [read on]
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