Second Nature, Part One: 5 Habits You Pick Up In China
This is not the first time I've been to China. The first time I came was for five weeks in the summer of 2016 with an organization called ELIC . After a week of orientation in Beijing, my six-person team taught two 10-day English camps for High Schoolers: one in Wujin, Changzhou and one in Changsha. Now as I've returned to China for not even a full month yet, I've found myself already falling back into the habits I barely got comfortable with last summer. Somehow it's just familiar enough to make the transition a little smoother. Never been to China before? Going to China for the first time and curious as to what to expect culturally? Here's a quick list of some habits you'll likely pick up (or be forced to pick up) in your first few weeks in country. 1. How Do These Things Work? This one's kind of a no-brainer. The Chinese have been eating almost exclusively with chopsticks for thousands of years, so it...