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Bus Adventures With Chinese Grandma: Don't Forget Your Stockings!
Last night I was taking the bus to a friend's campus and sat down next to a grandma. Now, in the words of my friend Patrick, "Chinese grandmas are the sh*t." It's true: they can do anything and exude a quiet confidence I aspire to. (Also, they can totally snake all the good veggies at the market before anyone realizes what's happening.) They rule with a silk fist. You don't mess with a Chinese grandma. And to a Chinese grandma, all the world's a grandchild, especially a lone foreign girl. I sat down next to grandma in my short skirt and knee-high boots, sans stockings, and she immediately began chastising me for being bare-legged. I explained I don't have stockings, and she started running her hands up and down the bare-showing parts of my thighs, trying to warm me up. After a year and a half here, this didn't faze me (haha, I first wrote "phase" me), but I still had to laugh at the image of a Chinese grandma feeling up a random foreig...
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Leigh, it is so interesting the differences between students in Asia and the Western World. It would be fun to talk about with you. The most interesting thing to me was, they were still talking about the items, and thought they were really neat, but not buying them! Talking about them was enough. (And it was okay for class purposes.) I was just so surprised people don't want to buy everything in sight, just because they can. :)