First Experience

I came to work too early. I should have taken up the invitation and headed to Beijing first, or I should have stayed at hometown swallowing hamburgers until I would get sick of it. This place is beyond my imagination. I can read the characters, but I hardly understand what street people speak. Maybe they are talking in dialects or Mandarin with very different accents. It is very often I reply them based on the key words I hear. The streets are exotic. You can see brand cars, bizarre scooters and bicycles on the same road. There are lots of shops along the street in front of the university. What interesting is none of them is familiar to me. International food chains haven't expended their businesses to the inland town. Outside the university most people in the town look like countrymen or countrywomen.

What irritating me the most is no decent coffee and meal available. The only coffee I had tried is a coffee drink, a mix of coffee, alcohol, and something else, in a restaurant. It is costly and tastes bad. The meal in the dining hall is inexpensive because it is almost vegetarian! I feel the strength accumulated in my body is flowing out. I need coffee and protein badly. I must keep in faith that I will eat Bojangle’s fried chicken, Dunkin Donut’s iced coffee, Hong Kong’s fried rice, I Love NY Pizza’s cheese pizza, whole milk, steak, fries, all-nature bread, flavored olive oil and much more, again and again.

I visit Raleigh half an hour everyday.