asians in asia are totally different. i’m very slow compared to them. it seems like they’re rushing because they feel like they’ll miss out on something. it doesn’t matter if you’re elderly like my grandmother, they’ll just shove you aside. supposedly it is worse on the mainland, i’ll find out in a day or two when i go to shanghai.
asians here also seem to be way more paranoid of little things. people only talk to each other after some kind of grace period, as if there’s a trust threshold that has to be reached. but i guess this is true everywhere.
i think i am over-generalising. i suck.
when i think about the things my family says about how this place used to be, i think about how different life would have been had my parents not emigrated.
soon i’ll be going home–crap! but i saved money on books. and just about everything else. except clothes. going shopping again right now, so i will fix that. aa batteries are about half the price.