Today when I was walking back from the gym I saw a man on the street just strolling along with two dead turtles hanging on a string. Their necks were all stretched out and swinging as he casually walked down the road. I felt slightly better when I realized that the Chinese people were also staring at him and another man even jumped out of the way and said something like "Oh crap!"
My big China moment for the week though has to do with the fact that I thought I had some sort of respiratory infection. I started coughing up some nasty stuff on Thursday and had a pretty terrible throat-ache and uncomfortable feeling in my nasal passages. I woke up on Friday feeling no better and complained about it to my coworkers and even my Chinese teacher, who all said they were experiencing the same thing and we all blamed it on the change in weather, since this week it has gone from below freezing to about 50 during the day.
Then today I woke up and I thought I was in Beijing.
The sky was pretty much orange and I could barely see the road that is about 200 yards in front of my building. I went outside and it was super windy and at points I had to walk backward against the wind because there was too much dust in my face to actually see where I was going. I should have worn my face mask.
So there you go, my second sand storm in China and my first in Shandong. Today there was a sand storm in Beijing and apparently it has also reached down here in Qingdao and even as far as Shanghai. Apparently this is the first sandstorm in Shandong in a long time and possibly ever.
And if you're not grossed out enough by China, apparently one tenth of all cooking oil in China is actually drainage oil. Why am I here again?
On the plus side, this allows expats to start our own FML site: http://www.fmychinalife.com/
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The hanging dead turtles don't sound nearly as strange as finding random bottles of dead lizards/snakes in the street like you did last time you were there.
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