Well, if you are reading this, you apparently have some interest
in hearing what I have been and will be doing in China. Great! So,
let's begin.
If you are unfamiliar with the
details leading up to this, my wife and I moved to China on 30 Dec and
will be staying here de facto permanently until we decide otherwise. You
will have found this blog through one of my social media profiles, so I
will refer to my wife simply as "D". D is originally from central China
and all of her family currently resides within the country. She came to
the US to study at OSU, and this is where we met. We moved to
Bentonville, AR last year about this time when she was offered a job at
Wal-Mart corporate offices. We have now relocated to China for her to
work at Wal-Mart China's corporate office, which was generally a good
move for both us and the company. I do not speak Chinese very well, I'm
1.9m tall, and very white. My Chinese is progressing nicely, but
unfortunately the other two aspects are rather immutable.
I've went ahead and created permanent pages for the two biggest
questions I've received from absolutely everybody and you can find those
on the navigation pane on the right. I'm not sure how I will go about
adding posts, but it will probably be topic oriented focusing on a
single theme each entry rather than a chronological recap of what I have done in the last few days. If you are interested to know something please
comment and I will comment back a response or put something in the next
post I create if it seems like an interesting enough question. I'm
definitely willing to do some investigative reporting, and currently
have a fair amount of time on my hands at the moment, so I have time to
go track down whatever it is you might be looking to answer; e.g. What
kind of local flowers are there? How much is cab fare? What does a
Chinese restaurant really look like? Can you convince somebody you are Steve Jobs?
I'll get working on something interesting soon, and I'll let everyone know via social media.
-J
Do they have vending machines for almost anything, I heard they did?
ReplyDeleteI have only seen drink vending machines after arriving (and they are pretty cheap), but I saw a Best Buy vending machine in the Columbus Airport.
DeleteJapan has the crazy vending machines where you can buy seafood and used underwear.