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Monday, January 10, 2011

Best and Worst

I thought I'd post Meghan and John's top 10 likes and dislikes about China:

Meghan's Likes:

1.  Getting Maggie
2.  Guangzhou Safari Park
3.  Victoria Peak, Hong Kong
4.  The Tram ride up to Victoria Peak
5.  Sha Mian Island where we stayed
6.  Shopping
7.  Working for Sherry (a local shop owner)
8.  Experiencing new culture
9.  Seeing the city at night from a plane.
10.  Our welcome home party

Meghan's dislikes

1.  Jet Lag!
2.  Weird Food
3.  Getting sick (caught a cold)
4.  The bad train ride from Guangzhou to Hong Kong while sick
5.  Long flight over and back
6.  Hard beds
7.  Missing friends
8.  Poor public Hygiene in China
9.  No English TV
10.  Polluted air

John's likes

1.  The culture
2.  The language
3.  The shops
4.  The industry (shipping and factories)
5.  How they view respect differently than us (they use it way more than we do)
6.  It was cool to see a big city
7.  The food (the fact that they had American food there)
8.  The currency (the exchange rate concept)
9.  The landscape
10.  It was cool to see how different government is compared to the USA

John's Dislikes

1.  Chinese food is really different than what we eat in the US
2.  Being in a big city can be stressful
3.  Shop keepers harping on tourists to come into their shops
4.  Time change, they used military time
5.  Waiting for so many things (Maggie, planes, appointments)
6.  Jet Lag
7.  The long plane ride
8.  Not completely knowing if you were getting a good deal or not because we were tourists.
9.  Not being able to understand people (not knowing Cantonese)
10.  Not knowing if Maggie was going to like me.

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