cultural mishaps

the two funny signs we saw this week:

a sign in the library reads in English"

"No Noising"

A sign was put up yesterday by a busy street:

"Please Walk the Horizontal Way" (as if maybe lots of people crawl across?!)

A Chinese friend told us a story about another white foreigner on our campus. There are several students here from Eastern Europe that make up the few whities on our campus. We get stared at...ALOT. The kids and I get our pictures taken almost every week by someone. It really feels like we're celebritiy's all the time. Well, sometimes it gets really old and you just wanna blend in. Well, one of the European students had enough of it one day. And he spoke Chinese. So when a Chinese student was staring at him, he replied with the retort "Don't stare at me like a caged animal!" Although not very kind, I can very much understand the frustration, but I've chosen not to learn the phrase for fear that I might accidently use it sometime. But we thought the story was really funny.