So I went for a walk by myself this morning (read: by myself; read: without Jason; read: where was Jason? Out riding his new baby...). It wasn't an exciting walk. I walked around the Nanhu Park right down the road from my flat (that's "apartment" for you Americans). Apparently it was exciting for some people though.
I don't usually have a problem with people staring at me. Selfishly I guess, it kinda makes me feel important. Like, I'm maybe the only white person they have ever seen! Or, maybe I'm the prettiest white person they've ever seen! (Read: vain and conceited I'll admit it.) Or maybe they're wondering how she got such a handsome husband! (Well, that was before the bike...). But sometimes, it does irk me. Like the other day, when it was stinking hot and I was sweating waiting at the bus stop for 30 minutes and a guy leans out of the bus window (of the bus that was not mine) and yells "Foreigner!" and proceeds to snap as many photos of me as he can before the bus takes off (I'd tell you what they say in Mandarin but I can't spell it nor can I find my phrase book right now. It sounds something like "Wy Goren". I know I spelled that completely wrong...sorry). Really, at 3pm when 28 C seems like 35 C cause the humidity is at some 70%, I am really not at my most photogenic (that translates to ridiculously hot and sweaty for the North Americans). I am also not really very photogenic when I'm power-walking around the lake in upwards of 70% humidity either. So don't coast your bike alongside me and give your grandson a geography lesson. For a good 10 minutes. My hat is off to you for be able to maintain walking speed on your bicycle for that long but really, is it completely necessary to make me have to practically run to get a head of you???
Like it or not, whatever we do here, we have an audience! And people talk about us all the time. Its almost like in that movie 'Stranger than Fiction'...I swear they are narrating our life. Sometimes, we'll go into a shop, and when we look to the door, there's a small crowd of people watching us (who'd have thought buying postcards could be so interesting?). Or imagine us going for a walk, only to look several metres behind and see a growing posse of curious locals following the foreigners...whatever will we do next? Really, we live the most exciting lives in the world! Bet you never knew we were so important!
Like it or not, whatever we do here, we have an audience! And people talk about us all the time. Its almost like in that movie 'Stranger than Fiction'...I swear they are narrating our life. Sometimes, we'll go into a shop, and when we look to the door, there's a small crowd of people watching us (who'd have thought buying postcards could be so interesting?). Or imagine us going for a walk, only to look several metres behind and see a growing posse of curious locals following the foreigners...whatever will we do next? Really, we live the most exciting lives in the world! Bet you never knew we were so important!
We started the process of enrolling for school! We're now in the process of being approved for a student visa so we'll be keeping ya updated on that!
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