What are ya? 10 Types of China Expats

Hahah. Number 7 is pretty accurate, except that I haven't been here all that long, and am thinking I'll probably go back soon (at least temporarily). But I do live with my Chinese in-laws (at least on holidays) and when my mom came to visit this year she had one of those american bills with the colour on it and I was like "what the hell is that?"

FWIW I think chicken cooked with the bones in is way tastier than boneless.

I guess the closes thing I am is the "English Teacher" since that is, in fact, what I am doing here, BUT I do not feel I fit the description.  I speak Chinese, having studied it in the US, and am learning it more here.  I have no taste for business and teaching is my career.  WTF am I???

Oh, and the Chinese friggin love the bones!  Have you ever been to an all-Chinese meal with fish served?  They fight over who gets to suck the bones dry!

AND most Chinese I know prefer the hole in the ground to the seats.  They think it's more sanitary, and it's definitely a mistake to think that they would have toilet seats "if they had the money."

bones in meat: good

bones in fish: a week long pain in the gums

I like bones. I hate bone splinters.... The cooks need to sharpen the cleaver more often.

I don't fit ANY of those ten. I fit a bit, but then the rest goes off elsewhere. FOr example, I don't speak Chinese nor care to reallly.

I do business and teach English, but I know the culture well, and am just about to open a kung fu school here.

Going to be here a few years, but not indefinitely.

Going to be coming back here a lot, but then, before I came here I came every year for about a decade anyway.


So,

As usual, I am just me. Sigh.

I'm a combination of 3 and 4, turning into 7, hoping to become a 10 rather than a 9.

As the song said, maybe you're just a three dressed up as a 9