Well I had my first experience of being illiterate. I got to the airport and, too shy to hazard a foray into a restaurant because of my lack of any appreciate conversational mandarin, went to a news kiosk to buy water, tea and candy. Note my gentle reader that I do not typically breakfast n candy, but I am a ill frazzled.
So I buy my water, tea and two candy bars. I got what I expected with the water, but the tea and candy bars were a surprise, and fortunately not the teeth grinding kind of surprise.
I expected the tea to be unsweetened like in Japan. The bottle looked the same, but because I cannot read it turned it to be non offensively sweetened. Still was good.
The dove bars, which I anticipated being milk chocolate were n fact white chocolate. That was a surprise. Fortunately, I am not adverse to white chocolate and hence it was a savory treat.
Anyway, the point is, I have stepped into a world where I cannot read, communicate by pointing, smiling and nodding, and cannot understand what people are saying. A few days ago I was this burned out lawyer living in G-Vegas, not I am a giant baby Huey wandering the Middle Kingdom in search of food.
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