Top 20 Things I've Learned in Hong Kong.
20.) That Chinese characters are ridiculously complicated. (It took me 2 months to learn the one for “Female" in order to use the washroom.)
19.) That you can function if you drive on the left hand side of the road, walk to the left of the street, write your dates as 31/12/07 instead of 12/31/07 and have 8 digits in your phone number.
18.) My Chinese Name (Dai Ming)
17.) How to climb 7 flights of stairs 6 times a day, and how to walk 2 miles for groceries.
16.) That public transportation can be incredibly efficient (I managed to learn #17 just for fun.)
15.) That the world can be your playground.
14.) That soy milk is good, REALLY good.
13.) That chopsticks are just Oh, SO much cooler than a fork and knife.
12.) That I really, really like mountains.
11.) That everyone has something to teach me.
10.) How to act when you have no idea what’s going on, or what anyone is saying.
9.) What it is like to have a whole row of people stare at you.
8.) How to tell the difference between spoken Mandarin and spoken Cantonese.
7.) How to paddle a Dragon Boat.
6.) That people here really, really like their cell phones.
5.) That paying more than 4 U.S. dollars for a full course meal is simply ridiculous.
4.) That my classmates/teachers are amazing because they can hold conversations in three languages simultaneously.
3.) That family is important.
2.) That nothing compares to learning Chinese history from a Chinese point of view.
1.) That I have seen a VERY one sided view of the world until now.
