Another Monday

My body is sweating out all the toxins that have built up from eating Chinese food all the time. This Chinese girl stole Fabio (my Italian coworker) and I's fan. She was smiling and we didn't really get what see was doing until she was walking away with it. I think I might walk over smiling and take it back. Buttttt, my skin is baby butt clear. Speaking of baby butts, I think I freaked out a Chinese dad this weekend in Hangzhou. I kept taking pictures of this kid because #1) he was cute and #2) he had the slit in his pants that Chinese parents sometimes make so the kids can conveniently squat go to town on the sidewalk. He probably wouldn't have caught onto why I was taking the pictures except for the fact that I kept saying "jiji jiji jiji" which translates to "penis penis penis." Jiji was kind of my word this weekend. Seeing little kids' genitals in public is indeed a very foreign thing for me. I'm so used to Chinglish being my secret language to talk to friends in when we gossip at Yale that now in China I sometimes forget that everyone speaks Chinese in China and I should use English to say my secret thoughts.