I'm in China

So I'm in China right now... I have a lot to say, but I'll just give some highlights.

- crossing the street is scary and cars do not break for you, seriously
- the bus breaks a lot and you have to hold on for dear life
- apparently I have a Cantonese accent when I speak Mandarin (3 people have told me so far), I guess it makes sense to me, but it's a long complicated story
- things are apparently cheap, like $1 = 8 Yuan... and a bottle of water is like 2 yuan, breakfast costs about 5 yuan, and the most expensive meal so far was 193 yuan split between me and 5 other people, which is like 32 yuan, or about 6 dollars each and I thought it was a bit pricey by Chinese standards
- squat toilets: they are still around... I haven't used one since my visit to Cambodia, but apparently much of the world still use it, and it's not just like for underdeveloped nations... Japan still uses them... like I saw them in the Narita Tokyo airport.
- Beijing University's medical campus is "small" compared to the main campus, but not by my standards. It takes me 15 minutes to walk to the cafeterias and to our classrooms... that's freakin' far. I'm used to it only taking 2-4 minutes to walk to class and to eat.