Life and Travel in China

I saw a particularly pathetic argument today. Well, while I was at a large railway station, waiting with thousands of people for a train (no one waited longer than 30-60 minutes), I saw a man arguing with a woman sitting next to him about a place in the waiting room. The exchange of insults became so intense that about six people got involved, and two women even started pushing each other. If it weren't for the intervention of the station staff, there would probably be a regular battle for a seat in the waiting room. It's very pathetic how people are at each other's throats over a stupid seat that they will leave in a few dozen minutes and go their separate ways.

Today, the supermarket ran out of chives, and since they are usually added to fish soup or steamed fish, sometimes also to other meats, most Chinese quickly bought green chives. One boy, seeing that we were looking and asking him where he got the chives, took pity on us. It turned out that he didn't have any more bunches, so he gave us his chives, and he and his friend bought another vegetable. Beautiful attitude! Give your chives to some white man!

In Poland there are holidays and holidays, and in China everyone works. Most people don't have any holidays at all, and many don't take them either because they're afraid of losing their job or having a lot of backlogs at the office. There are no holidays in factories. And the children? Most of them take additional classes (English, piano, tutoring and preparation for exams). In the middle country, no one is idle! Most people don't have time to rest, and that's probably why China is developing so much, and Poland isn't... Here, you can relax, even at work.

China and relations with other countries... It is the year of Russian culture in the Middle East, a joint expedition of journalists and politicians through China and Russia, this is not surprising, but... An exhibition in Beijing devoted to Swedish-Chinese friendship. A meeting is underway with students from France who came to the country to exchange with their peers from China. And Poland? What is Poland doing to maintain good relations with the world's greatest power? Well, after Kwaśniewski buried one tree in 1997, then Lepper visited the Great Wall of China, and nothing has happened since then. Of course, there are some forms of cooperation and exchange, but they mean nothing to China, because Poland is not mentioned at all in the local media. At all!!!

I suspect that some fake Puma T-shirts were leaked from the factory in China, because why would Puma promote the Polish national team's T-shirts in the country? Today I met a boy and a girl on the subway and he was wearing a Puma T-shirt, white and red, with the emblem and the inscription POLAND on the chest. He passed by me and I said "Poland, Poland" and pointed to the T-shirt. He got scared and left. I added in Chinese that I was from Poland. After two minutes, they realized what was going on and started analyzing what was on his shirt. The guy probably didn't know that it was an emblem and that there was such a country as Poland (it said Poland, not Poland). Actually, I scared him, but maybe he'll learn something from the fact that he has a Polish national team shirt, because he probably thought he had a red and white T-shirt with a cool eagle logo!