After a 13 hour flight from San Francisco we got our 12 suitcases and 6 carry-ons and met our drivers who drove us over the bridge from Hong Kong to mainland China. The kids were exhausted. When the border gaurds were checking our visas I had to hold up Nicole and Vika's heads to show the security gaurds that the picture matched the person. When we arrived at our house the director of the school, Britt Brantley met us and showed us into our home. This is our kitchen. Notice there is no stove, but our IE doesn't need one to cook for us. Notice also that there is no dishwasher. The IE will just do them by hand. I'm definately not complaining, I'm just pointing out some of the differences between what you would expect to see in an American kitchen and here.
This is our dinning area. Notice the tiny refridgerator in the back. Even though this is different than our house I can see a lot of things that I like better, for example, you don't need a huge refridgerator because whenever we need something we can just walk to the corner market. It's about 200 yards from here, so you don't need to stock a lot of stuff in your house because whatever you need is always close.
This is our living room.
This is the front of our house. Things mildew quickly here. It's so humid that everything rots and rusts very quickly.
3 comments:
not a bad little pad you have there. is there anyone there that has kids?
-Josh
I have two questions:
1) do chinese people get fat when they eat mcdonalds?
2)what are the differences between chinese mcdonalds and american mcdonalds?
McDonald's is about the same as the US. Most Chinese people recognize that McDonald's is disgusting so they only eat there just because it's fast and so they can say they've done it, but they try to avoid it. The Chinese who eat western food get fat just like us. I've seen a few kids who eat poorly and are pretty chubby, but most kids are very skinny.
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