Sorry to disappoint those of you who are waiting for Mike to contribute stuff from China, it's just me. Mike tells me he can not view our Blog, let alone write in it from China. Guess that is one of those things they block. Understandable, I suppose, after the stuff with Twitter in 2009 in North Korea. I am always a little stiff even in the e-mail I send him when he is over there, because I know that someone reads them before he can get them, and I've been a bit stiff in my Blog too thinking the same thing. I try not to forget the fact that he is in a Communist country.
Mike is enjoying himself. He really does like to be in China. He loves seeing different cultures, talking to different people (he speaks passing Mandrine if he has his electronic translator with him - which he forgot on this trip), and eating the REAL Chinese food. His boss for this project told him that he is the only person he knows who GAINED weight in China. Most people can't stomach the food. Mike tried 4 new dishes the other day - octupus, squid, eel, and bullfrog (and says the frog really DID taste like chicken).
He called me about 2 minutes before 11AM on December 31 to wish me Happy New Year. It was 2 minutes to midnight there. Since China invented fireworks, I need to find out if they celebrate the Western New Year with them too, or just the Chinese New Year, which I think is the end of January. We forgot that China does not have Daylight Savings Time, so they are really 13 hours ahead of us. Hard to remember that when we call eachother.
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