Life and Travel in China

I invite you to read my diaries. Notes, notes, comments, observations about life in China. From time to time about traveling!

I experienced various queues in China, I stood in a queue to go up a mountain, I saw a queue to enter a cave or a rollercoaster, queues in shops, queues on the sidewalks, in Hong Kong we wait for the green light for pedestrians because there is such a crowd that if they do not cross the street, we (walking straight on the sidewalk) have to wait. Something new today... a queue for the elevator. Imagine, 32 floors, a large office building, huge traffic and standing in a queue for three elevators. People get off, a special tape separates them, then you get on (if you make it in time), if not, you wait 10 minutes. One girl got off because the elevator was already overloaded, but the alarm was still ringing, so she tells another guy that she has to get off too. He got out and she quickly got in, and since she was a little lighter, the alarm went off. The entire elevator laughed.

Imagine that in China, food and lunch/dinner times are very important. At 12:30 or 1:00 p.m. everyone goes for lunch, 100% of companies have an hour break for lunch. It also happens that it is a topic for conversation, something like "how are you?". In China, they say, "Have you eaten yet?", that's how you start a conversation. In the evening, dinner is prepared at home, everyone eats at 7:30 p.m., there is no question of eating at 8:00 p.m. or 5:15 p.m. It must be 7:00 or 7:30 p.m. There are queues outside some of the better restaurants at this time of night.

My fiancée recently told me about a Chinese woman from Shanghai, they both work in the same company. This Chinese woman is a typical "fly that flies to white" - as my friend from Hong Kong once put it. This girl just goes crazy at the sight of a white guy. And she's not the only one. This is amazing, of course I'm not a supermodel myself, but I look fit and I'm young and slim. It shocks me when I see young Chinese women in their 20s going with a fat, bald, sleazy white guy of 40, and I even saw a 60-year-old grandfather with a girl of 28-30. Would you say it's for money? And let me tell you, not always. Sometimes these Chinese women who have a good job, have their own money, or even their own apartments fall in love with such white guys because they are different, original, interesting and, above all, white. They're crazy! Such a guy usually has a wife in his home country, or he is a divorcee, that's my guess!