请水糖 Qingshuitang road is where I currently reside. I have my favorite restaurants, least favorite restaurants, my work (although I won't be working there start may), my friends and the people I don't like. Let me first start by confessing I don't know any of these peoples names. So I have just given them monikers for the purpose of talking about them with my foreign friends. And I have so many!
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| 7 cups of tea staff: Husband, Cutie and Auntie! |
First there is 7cups of tea Auntie. She is so nice, and she puts up with my terrible Chinese. She talks to me, slowly and helps me understand many other people. Despite her thick Hunan accent (or should I say Fulan), she is the easiest person for me to understand because she genuinely wants to communicate with me. She and the other people that work there are extremely nice. She actually took me and Kirsten to lunch one day! Needless to say I never feel guilty about getting my 3rd smoothie or milk tea of the day!
Then there is my FCH (future Chinese husband). He is so nice, but is always joking with me. He always has a smile and a chunk of betel nut shoved in his cheek. He is usually holding a cigarette as he doles out change from his change box. "Hallo" is how he always greats me, then usually adds in a "Ni hao." He speaks limited Chinese and has a super thick Hunan accent. He loves to offer me cigarettes and then laugh when I turn it down. He and I have a special relationship and he loves giving me free ice cream! Which we all know how much I love ice cream! His favorite thing to say to me is "I am not well, I haven't seen you lately" Or at least I think that is what he is saying!
