What does "wo ai xiao gou" mean you might ask? As my good friend *atherine with a K would respond, it means "i love small dogs" (actually, she loves all dogs, but that's beside the point). To be more specific, I'm loving that Beijing has an unhealthy obsession with small dogs that are sooooo ugly that they're actually cute. I know at least two of you, *coughKatherineandLisacough* are also fans of these ridiculously amazing animals, so I know that I'm not entirely crazy in my desire to take pictures of these strange little creatures that people seem to love putting in bow ties and dresses. Yes, that's right, bow ties and dresses. It's incredible.
To emphasize my love of these creatures, today when walking home from the subway to buy a replacement phone and a new photo card, I decided to walk a new route which ultimately took me 40 minutes to get back to my dorm and not the usual 10 minutes but that's beside the point. I saw this great little alley with a bunch of people coming out and walked down it only to be barraged by the wonderful smell of these flowers trees that I have in my backyard at home, which was fantastic. Anyway, I get towards the end of the actually one way street and run into this woman with a small dog on a leash that looks utterly ridiculous. I tried out my very best chinese language skills and told her "wo ai ni de xiao gou" or "i love your small dog" to which she responded by laughing awkwardly and walking her dog in the opposite direction. I think I may have accidentally actually said "wo ai ni xiao gou" or "i love you small dog" which has not quite the same meaning and probably freaked her out a little. Ooops. I also ran into a grandmother and grandson stomping/dancing/tapdancing? at the end of this road on the other side of the padlocked gate or I would have joined in.
On my other topic though, since I should really be studying/reading for tomorrow's midterms, SUBWAY LINE RUSH HOUR IS NOT FOR SHORT PEOPLE WITH SENSITIVE NOSES.
If this ever occurs to you, be prepared not to breathe and to look away if possible because there are unfortunate consequences to being short in a packed subway. These unfortunate consequences are: 1) looking at sweaty smelly armpits of Chinese men who are holding onto the bar of the subway to avoid falling down*
2)smelling the sweaty smelly armpits of Chinese men who are holding onto the bar of the subway to avoid falling down
Both of these are completely avoidable if they use antiperspirant. Or if I grow another 4 inches. Of the two, I think the first is more reasonable.
*It's actually ridiculous that they need to hold this bar because I can't even reach the bar and usually there are people standing in the middle so I can't hold the vertical bar and I don't even ride the subway on a normal basis and I have yet to fall down, so this whole deal could also be avoidable if they just take some ballet lessons and quit sticking their arms in the air. (my third solution).
Okay, time to catch up on reading/study for midterm/get some sleep before class.
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