Why not

Yep so I've decided to blog. It was suggested to me and I decided why the heck not, I got stuff to write about.

I finally got out; left the Great, White, familiar North for the crazy and unpredictable land overseas. It's such a 'whim' kinda thing that I did; my friend told me her boss wanted someone else on their team, I got an interview, got offered the job, said yes, and poof, one month later I'm as far from home as possible for the better part of a year. It's nuts, especially since I've never gone outside the Canada/US region before.

So far, man, It's great. It's an experience, 100%. I've had frog and chicken feet (which my whiteness flinched at so hard) and popcorn that was legitimately just popped corn (catches you way off guard) and realized that no one here cares in regards to traffic safety. Folks pull U-turns in the middle of busy intersections, people walk into the street seemingly at random and cars just go around them, and a few of the taxis I've been in didn't even have seatbelts. Everywhere I go people are offering me flyers or asking for money or saying Ni hao (to which I have a very limited number of responses memorized). It's also strange how some things work. Like I don't get how taxes work; twice I've paid what was on the price tag and gotten an RNB (Chinese currency) back, which seems like a kind of weird utopian thing where the taxes go back to the customer but like why not. And today was kind of funny. I went to a tiny phone store to unlock my phone and ended up buying the clerk's personal phone off of him. China, man.

I'd talk about work but I don't feel like talking about work. Maybe when I get more situated in my job. We're gonna be visiting the 'Villiage on the Water' hopefully next weekend, and I'm excited, cuz apparently it's almost entirely a water-based area.

It's only been a week and I already have so many stories I could share. I'll save some for future posts, if I decide to keep this up. I'm a fan, why not.

Cool. Ok so. Goodbye