Blogs from Guangdong, China, Asia - page 136

I'm so sad that I didn't have my camera when the following occurred. The whole scene was so China! Sometimes even those of us who LOVE Chinese food give in to momentary desires for french fries and the following unfolded as Sen and I were sitting in the window seats at McDonald's, eating lunch and people-watching... On the rode, lying on its side, was a bike. Just a normal bike, nothing fancy, definitely well-used. On the back of the bike was a 3-foot high, skinny, dark blue barrel. Standing next to the bike, looking down at the ground in stunned disbelief, was a man, approximately 30 years old. Lying on the road, surrounding the bike and man, were about 20 great big fish, each at least a foot long, flopping around and bouncing inch-by-inch across the ... read more

Being that March 8th was International Women's day, it was only naturally expected that we would celebrate in a grand way. My seventh grade office kicked off the women's day celebrations early by ordering a 15inch size cake, having it delivered to the office, sending the bill to our office leader (a man), and serving up cake slices the size of my entire head to all the women. There was much giggling and devouring......it would be a long celebration. The chinese are unexplainable and funny quite often, but somehow the men tend to be alittle easier to handle or understand. The dress much closer to the western style. Most can small talk about basketball or football (soccer), most don't scream when something exciting happens, and the majority of them are pretty chill. In the end, the ... read more

We discovered another asian sport. It is a foot game. The number of players is indifferent. This game consists in exchanging a sort of ball with feathers by feet. It is very funny and tiring when you don’t know how to play with it. So this is the new daily sport of our French team… only for a moment I think. Have a look on the South gate of the campus! And the Chinese policeman!  Haha picture! I’m a tourist! This Monday was the last day of the Chinese lantern celebration. Its duration is about one month. The Chinese lantern celebration is done since the Hanne dynasty (from -202 to 221) and it closes the New Year festivities. In the olden days, it was the occasion to drive back with lanterns the ancestors come to ... read more

For going to Beijing Lu street, we took the metro. The metro is very clean and safe. Guangzhou is a huge city where poverty has to face with globalization. Beijing Lu is a commercial street with many shops where you can find shoes for less than 3 euros and toys “à gogo”!  At night, it is very illuminated and shops open until 12:00 PM! In China, I don’t feel very much as a foreigner because Chinese people think that I am Chinese so when I am with my friends, they tend to speak to me first as if I should understand them. Only arrived and have already been at the night club! Well… night clubs are different from France and anywhere else. Yes, there is music, alcohol, podiums for dancing but almost nobody dance! What ... read more

As I will study in the MBA program of Sun Yat-Sen University, I have been today with my new friends from HEC Montreal, EM Lyon and Negocia Paris to Lingnan College for choosing our courses. We put the morning to make our choice and then, we had lunch in a small restaurant in the street that we call a “buibui”… I don’t know why we call such restaurant like that in fact… but it is a “buibui”! We had a nice lunch and at 11 persons, we had to pay only about 5.5 euros! So 0.5 euro per person! Waou! That’s why, in brackets, I will eat in restaurant everyday . After eating, Williams - a French student from HEC Montreal who is in Guangzhou since a month - drove us to a fake market. This ... read more