Settling In Im Beginning To Feel Like
Settling in I'm beginning to feel like I belong in Xiamen. Yesterday when I was looking back at my pictures I felt like that was a different me, a USA version of me. I feel like I'm Chinese now. How I can tell is the other day when I was at the beach and a wave came which caught me off guard and I yelled "wei!" instead of the usually "woah!" My Chinese and Taiwanese have also gotten better. But today I was reminded of how crappy my Chinese is. We stopped a bookstore and it sucked. The air conditioning was low and there were no escalators and on top of that I couldn't understand a single thing on the shelves, I didn't even know which subjects I was browsing. I played CS again, I think it's growing on me. Nooooo! I actually did much better than yesterday, I owned. No body would care except for Steve and David but my score during the last game in dust2 was 43-7. Before I left for China I didn't even remember what dust2 looked like. Tomorrow I will go to Quanzhou to pick up my little cousin. Well actually I shouldn't say little anymore because she's 20 and has a bf now. But I always think of her as little because I always picked on her when we were kids and she would cry easily. Oh yeah I'm also proud that most of the time I am walking around Xiamen and not taking a cab. I've become familiar with the streets without knowing any street names or where the street names can be found. I guess after a lot of shopping and eating out you really get to know your way around.