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Sunday, February 20, 2011

What It's REALLY Like In Beijing, China Part 2

8.  Paper products are a luxury here.  We read that you sometimes have to pay for toliet paper and soap in public bathrooms.  We have not had to do this yet, but we have used bathrooms that have the toliet paper outside of the stalls instead of inside.  Restaurants do not give large napkins like they do in the states.  Their napkins are more like the small square napkins that we serve with cake at birthday parties, but much thinner.  Or they give out travel size kleenexes for a napkin.



9.  We get a lot of stares when Ronny carries Joseph on his shoulders.  People here don't carry their kids that way.  They mostly just hold them.

10.  The bathrooms in China are disgusting.  They think it is gross to sit on a toilet seat that others have also sat on.  So they have what are called squatty potties.  It's like a flat toilet in the ground that they stand over and do their business.  I haven't had to use one yet but I have taken Joseph to the restroom and he has used them.  They are nasty.  There is always pee all over the ground around the potty.  They think it's gross to sit on seat and I think it's gross to step in pee!  Yuck!

11.  The pollution in Beijing is so thick it looks like it is foggy all the time outside.  Because of the pollution and the excessive smoking here, people spit constantly on the ground.  Nasty!

That is not fog that you see.  It is pollution.

12.  Squatty potties have to be the grossest thing that I have seen here.  But the 2nd grossest are split pants.  Some families don't potty train there children as early as we do and they dress them in split pants.  These pants have a slit from back to front where they can just squat and go.  But they don't take them to the restroom to go.  The just squat whenever they get the urge.  Yes, right on the sidewalk!  We saw a little girl do this at the children's park inside the zoo.  Nasty!  On a slightly different note, as we were walking down the street, I saw a mom tell her son who was about 7 or 8 to go pee by the fence.  So he walked right over there and did his business.  Right next to the street.  

13.  It gets to cold here that you will often see two girls walking arm in arm.  They do this, obviously, to stay warm.  I thought it looked sweet.  

14.  The hotel escalator runs at a slow speed until someone gets on it.  Then it speeds up to what would be normal speed.

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