Things That Describe China:

yelling

spitting

shoving

staring

slurping

interrupting

rubbernecking

smoking on buses

driving like madmen

wasting no part of an animal

toilet stalls without doors

KTV for hours at a time

screaming into cell phones

cute fat furry puppies (not all things on this list are negative)

wearing slippers indoors

wife-seeking white men

not drinking water during meals

no indoor heating

couples who wear matching outfits

the asian squat

wearing surgical masks outdoors

using umbrellas when it's sunny

getting geared up in proper hiking atire but then not actually doing anything

taking a million pictures of your girlfriend holding a cappuccino

yelling at waitresses

long pinky nails

pouting (if you're a girl)

eating pickled eggs and chicken feet as snacks at movie theaters

men pulling their shirts up to their nipples at bars

telling tourists not to eat at your restaurant because you don't feel like cooking right now

wearing the same outfit three days in a row

putting sugar on tomatoes

bureaucrats getting off on making your visa extension miserable

yelling at white girls wearing shorts

corn-flavored popsicles

telling foreign exchange students from the Upstate New York that they will catch cold (we're at the Tropic of Cancer)

children not having to do chores

weird acid-wash jeans

Kung-Fu movies on buses

card games at bars

not knowing that the Olympics are over

my semester in China is winding down. I have had a fantastic time on my ISP, and really enjoyed getting to meet all the people I did. I'm in Guangxi province right now, but will return to Kunming to see my classmates for the first time in a month. I will miss the people and the experiences, but China, I'm sorry, there's just no love lost between us.

you should go to Tibet though.