When I woke up on the morning of July 26th of 2009 I realized I was going to travel. Not to São Paulo or Paris only... but to Beijing. One of the first things I told Camila on that morning, my best friend who was crashing at my place, was: "Camila, a gente tá indo pra China!" (Camila, we're going to China!)
After 40 hours of waiting in airports and actually flying from one place to the other, we finally arrived in Beijing. We met Zhang Ye, the student that was responsible for picking us up in the airport. He spoke to us in Chinese. Every SINGLE word in Chinese. At first I was like: "Whaaaat?!" Lol. Yeah. But I didn't freak out much. :) I could understand a little bit more when he spoke veeeery slowly. =) We had to wait for the Korean and American students that were about to arrive. Waiting was not the problem... the anxiety to go out was.
My first meal in China was dinner. I didn't mind much about eating it earlier than I would in Brazil. The smell, however, was something I could not ignore. I still cannot put into words that describe the feeling of smelling what I smelt. It was probably a mixture of the scents of chilli, ginger, soy, tofu and some other spices. My stomach didn't like it much.
The table was served and everything seemed to be really tasty. I tried to used kuaizi (chopsticks) to grab a chinese bun/bread. Nope. 1x0 to the chopsticks. It was too slippery. But, somehow, everybody in the table managed to get it. So I thought: "Let me try again!" 2x0 to the kuaizi. Out of no where comes this petit Chinese waitress with a fork and a knive to end my struggle with the food. Yes, I failed to eat with kuaizis on my first night in CHINA !
The Chinese bun/bread was really good. I got some salad after that. It looked so beautiful! When I put some of the rocket leaves in my mouth and "savored" it, I just wanted to vomit. Once more Mr Stomach disagreed about the amazing taste of Chinese food. I couldn't eat anything because I was certain it wouldn't have a happy ending for Mr Stomach, Ms Mouth and some other fellows.
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