China Days

Good China days

• when clear skies open up the view and air is easy to breathe
• joyful taxi rides when drivers know where they are going, are quiet or sing and car is clean
• when I realise that systems have improved: new highways, less cues in banks, easy access to internet :D
• weekend hikes
• esoteric chats with friends
• clean restaurants and great service
• new discoveries about chinese ways of thinking which makes life so much easier

Bad China days

• polution beyond acceptable
• new taxi drivers whose cars smell and they can't stop talking about their assumptions of where I come from, who I am and what I think
• feeling trapped in Beijing traffic
• friends leaving China and feeling of loneliness
• MSG in food
• facing Chinese ways of dealing with reality that makes me assume Chinese people are ignorant and so not interested to work together on solving problems