Stuff in Xiamen

So some things are the same and others change.

China is still the less developed version of Taiwan. That is pretty clear. But there are fewer foreigners here so people are much more impressed with my Chinese. On the same token, little kids see fewer foreigners so they are not sure what to make of me. There was one little girl at dinner tonight and each time I looked at her she got scared, so I went talk to her and her mom and say hello in Chinese. The fact that a white person was speaking Chinese to her scared her even more.

At lunch today we had hot corn juice as a drink. There is indeed a first time for everything.

However, I spent most of the day at a paper company here sitting in on meetings for a product deal that I was not part of and hopefully will not have to deal with. So the motivation to listen to the prep yesterday was minimal. That meant today I had hours of meetings about something I cared nothing about (seriously I was meeting/looking at paper production for 7 hours including a lunch with the company) and didn't understand.