Things I will miss about China:

• Being able to experience and get to know a culture other than my own
  
•  Eating with chopsticks- I am pretty good now and brought some home to continue to practice though
  
•  Watching local people do Tai Chi or traditional dances in the park
• a $10 hour long foot massage- how can you pass that up?
•  The lazy susan- I got to try a lot of different types of food that I never would have ordered.  It is also really fun to share all the food and just eat small quantities of everything!
• Eating ice cream everyday!
•  Complete strangers walking up to you just to try and practice their English a little bit.  Parents push their young children up just to say hello.
  
•   Seeing the little babies with their split pants
  
• Being able to bargain for cheap, fun souvenirs - after I spend 5 minutes bargaining I realize that I was trying to get them down like fifty cents.  Oh well, its kind of fun. 
  
•   Everything is so cheap here!  It’s so easy to take a taxi, eat dinner and go shopping and realize you’ve spent less than $20 the whole evening!
  
•   Dumplings- yum, I could eat these every day
  
•  Watching Chinese woman do EVERYTHING in crazy high heels- bike, climb rocks, walk up 500 steps at a temple.  It makes me laugh to see them so dressed up everywhere- and sometimes with the knee highs J
• Pocky (and the fact that Christina called it Pokey the whole time!)
•  Being able to see all the cute babies at New Day Foster Home.  I was ready to take little Adam home!

Things I will not miss:

•     The squat- even though it’s not as difficult as it once was.  But you don’t know how much we rejoiced when a place has a Western bathroom!
  
•   The lazy susan- I started to dread seeing this at every meal because who really knew what we were actually eating
  
•   Seeing men pull up their shirts and rub their bellies and all the gross spitting
•  Being stared at like we are aliens
  
•  Seeing the little babies with their split pants using the bathroom on the street where I’m walking.  All those puddles I thought were water from the rain, now I’m not so sure!
  
• The air pollution- some of the cities are so smoggy you can’t see 500 feet in front of you.
  
• Almost being run over by people on bikes
  
• The crazy Chinese driving- just because you honk doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want on the road!
  
• Not understanding the language at all- it's sad that I still only know about 10 words in Chinese
• The hot, humid, sticky weather- oh wait, Texas isn't that much different :(