Ok, so here are some funny things that have happened since coming to China. The first experience with the Chinese people actually occurred in the Chicago airport as we were boarding the plane. I was one of a handful of non-Chinese people on the flight. Since the import tax on American goods is so high, all the Chinese people had purchased duty free items from the airport and wanted to carry the items on the plane. So the English speaking airline workers were trying to explain to the Chinese-speaking passengers how to collect their packages and carry them on the plane. Because there were so many, they just kept trying to shove the items in the overhead bins, and finding any room they could find so people were just running around everywhere. Then when the plane
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