Life and Travel in China

Such progress, such development, such wealth... and to this day there is no white cheese or cream in China. And there will be no Russian dumplings again!

Hospital advertising is becoming more and more intrusive. There are leaflets in the seat headrests on every bus, billboards all over the city, free leaflets, leaflets, advertisements in pharmacies and hospitals, and on TV. Breast enlargement, excess weight removal, cancer, infertility, venereal diseases, termination of pregnancy... big business. Sometimes I have the impression that the content of these leaflets refers to one thing, as if they wished us all diseases, the more the better, every problem, every disease, come to us!!!

Why do people need so many cars? One day we will all die because of these cars. They're going crazy in China too. Wife - a car, husband - a car, plus a company car, cars for the children when they grow up (or a car with a driver), and a few million trucks... It's not about traffic jams, if they bought a car, let them stay in traffic jams (the busiest cities I've seen in China are Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Shanghai), but what I care about is health, clean air, peace and quiet. People are lazy and stupid to themselves (later they wonder where cancer and heart attacks come from). Zero ecology. You can even enter some parks here by car, and you can also drive to the seaside, you can drive right to the beach. "You stupid, stupid, oh stupid!!!"

I like that on Chinese TV they show European football, not the Polish league of course, but mainly English and German. However, I don't like the fact that the team names are written in Chinese - if I don't recognize the shirts or the players, I have no idea who is playing with whom. Sometimes I even just look at the score 2-0, but who won? Newcastle or Manchester? I didn't watch the whole match, no one scored at the end and I still don't know what the result was. I guess 2 for Manchester.

I would really like it, I would like it for all my compatriots, for Poland to develop like China, but it is impossible. Firstly, we do not have such a population, secondly, we do not want to work (it is better to sit and complain), thirdly, every new government (no matter which one) instead of getting down to work and changing something in Poland, spends a few months discussing which reason is more rational. More rational is a new adjective, it suits us, Poles, because we love to discuss what is more rational. Nothing will change in Poland. I've already read it in Newsweek! There will be no lower taxes, a cheaper state, lower unemployment, there will be no economic growth, but it will be "cleaner", without corruption. Consolation to me too, great success!