So I left my comfy home in Toronto, Canada for the dirty, slummy and hot streets of Huizhou city, Guangdong, China. I'll be teaching here for at least a year and living in a rather old appartment complex. Anyone else live in China right now??
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!:bawl: yeah, it was all over news that they filmed one after deciding it was extinc:yay:t.
you mean sashimi Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!. they found a survivor? they should clone it and force the original to mate with other types of dolphin, so atleast they can introduce a hybrid back into the waters later on. peace.
They better be doing something. I bet they look at the bottom line and realize how much its worth alive and put in an aquarium.
they will most likey do the wrong thing, whatever that might be. some trophy hunters will probably capture it and sell it on. governments should do more to save animals before it gets this bad. they could easily have sorted out some selective breeding schemes to re-populate the species and bring the numbers back up years ago. peace.
Cetaceans, in general, aren't doing so well. Even without human interference, most are believed to be within a few hundred thousand years of extinction. It is, sadly, the way of nature. Perhaps humans are just the next comet to strike the Earth. Maybe that's our purpose. ~String
OK, I'll take some sashimi along with the sushi. Just as long as I can get some of it to eat, I wonder what it would taste like?
im guessing simular to tuna. i like sashimi just plain raw fish dipped in soy sauce. i have eaten a fish straight out of the river before like gollum from lord of the rings. just grabbed it smacked its head on a rock and started to chow down. the skin is weird if not cooked. i do like sushi but alot of these modern places put crap into it, but anyway yeah i think dolphin would taste simular to tuna, but thats just a guess. peace.
I hear there are travel restrictions within China for foreigners? What do you know about this? Have you had a chance to look around yet? How do you find the place, the people, the food, the climate, the experience? Tell me all!!!Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Well, that's sure a glowing recommendation for the place. In fact, it sounds so fuckin' nice, I've already booked tickets on Red China Airlines!! Who would not want to spend a few weeks in such a paradise as you've so lovingly described? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Baron Max
What a disgusting reason to go somewhere instead of to visit sites or take in their cultural traditions. The dollar does go a little further. There is a huge pollution problem that china has to address because of it's manufacturing.
Well the food is mixed, like anywhere else. Some good, some bad. But I've only been here a short while so I can't comment too extensively on the subject. The city is very dirty, and outstandingly loud all through the night, which makes sleeping a difficult matter. As far as restrictions for travellers, I have no idea what problems there are. It was very easy for me to get a tourist visa and even easier for me to later acquire the working visa. Getting from Hong Kong to China there was a bit of a bitch going through customs, but nothing serious. The worst part for foreigners is just that it's so damn hard to speak Mandarin! The people, so far, are definetely strange to live around. My town has very few white people, so I'm constantly being stared at, waved to and have Chinese approaching me who want to talk to me. The older people seem to resent me, or at least look at me as if they don't like me, whereas the younger Chinese are very excitable to be around me. The girls, well... Joeman, to answer your question it doesn't really matter how expensive the hookers are. Chinese girls are very friendly to white boys. The climate is relentless, a kind of heat I've never experienced. Coupled with the humidity and pollution, it's almost unbearable during the day time and barely reasonable at night. AC costs a lot too, so this is problematic. Baron, I know it doesn't exactly sound like the garden of eden, but it's fascinating to be here. And because it's so cheap to live (every meal is around $1, beer is less, movies also less...) this city provided me with a better opportunity to travel. I could have moved to Xi'an but then I would have very little spending money compared to here. Hello from China!
Where did you learn that? In general, warm-blooded air-breathing animals have such an advantage that they become the apex predators in their ecological niche in an aquatic environment. Do you mean learning it, wrapping your speech organs around the phonetics, or remembering to get the tones right? My informal research has determined that Chinese has about seven syllables to English's ten to express the same thought, so it's spoken somewhat slower. This makes it easier to pick out the words I know, which is one of the keys to immersion learning. Are the people pleased that you've taken the effort to learn their language, and patient with you? That's always been my experience with Chinese-Americans.
I know. It's too bad that the "product" might be damaged, but I would still considering such activity as sight seeing and partaking in their cultural activities. Tyler, it sounds like, well, if you can't score, you might as well turn gay. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Here's a short message I sent a friend that aptly describes the oddities and nuisances that abound living in a very Chinese city... Sometimes you really feel hatred for the way the people leer at you. It's not so bad when you're in a group of foreigners, because at least then you're talking to each other and not paying so much attention to the Chinese, and you can talk openly about the Chinese and they don't understand a fucking word. But when you're alone, it's really annoying. Today after a long day at the school I wanted to go eat food. Even just walking to a restaurant I was getting annoyed, I just wasn't in the mood for that attention. Specifically when every 20 feet someone waves at you. So as I walk in the restaurant the waiters and girls all run to the door and three of them escort me to my table. Then a fourth, I think a manager, comes over and offers me a Chinese menu - ya, like I can read that. So I order my food (you just have to memorize the words for beef, chicken, rice, etc. and pray they bring the right thing) and they pour me tea and put my chopsticks on the tea saucer. I'm not really thinking straight because all the patrons are staring, the waiter on break in the back is absolutely staring me in the eyes and not breaking for a second and I'm hot and hungry. So I move my chopsticks off the saucer and kind of play with them a bit in one hand. Quickly, one of the waitresses comes over and takes them out of my hand, pours tea over them (to clean them) and resets them and pours me more tea, then scolds me in Mandarin. She then runs over to the rest of the girls and they all essentially point and giggle and stare. Throughout the meal, it was just a nuisance that every time I look up someone's staring, or the kitchen staff have all come out to see me, or the girl from upstairs comes down to chat with her friends who are leering at me... you get the idea. Except this one family right across from my table, who aren't paying any special attention to me, or at least the parents aren't. Their (I would guess) 2 year old daughter is both fascinated with and terrified of me, and keeps turning around just to violently turn back, which her parents seem to find cute. Anyway, just as the meal is finishing I go to pour myself a cup of tea. The girl comes over, dumps the cup I'd poured into my bowl (unused), and repours it, scolding me all over again. Ni ba hao! Ni ba hao! At this point I'm pissed off. Just despising the attention and the constant watching of my every move. Then, I'm trying to figure out how and where to pay for my meal, when I see the guy at the table across from me (the father) summon the girl to give her money. As I think 'ah, that's how you do it here' he points over at my table, hands her a bit more money, then turns to me and smiles. I was kind of in shock for a moment, but that's just the kind of perk that balances the nuisances. It was a fancy restaurant too, my first time eating at a mid-high level place in Huizhou. When his wife and daughter got back from the restroom the wife tried to bring the daughter over to me to say hi, but she was too terrified, trying to run in the opposite direction. We all had a laugh, they said "bye-bye" and I said 'xi-xi' and that was that. Well, except of course I then had four girls escort me the 25 feet out of the restaurant.
