Things I'm going to miss:
- Being able to find milk tea everywhere
- Food being inexpensive and tasty
- The very impressive workshop at Allied
- Being good at basketball
- Exploring the city with my friends as an isolated group in a huge city
- The Shanghai Metro System and high-speed rail to Hangzhou
- Baozi and jiaozi. It's going to be hard to go back to eating Ling Ling
- Very kind and generous personal interactions
Things I'm not going to miss:
- Being stared at all the time everywhere I go
- Having to debone meat as I eat it
- Everyone smoking everywhere all the time
- Littering, spitting, people urinating everywhere
- The lack of personal space
- Monsoon weather
- Only having instant or overpriced coffee to drink
- Chinese "Beer" - an insult to beer
- Being functionally illiterate
- Not being able to drink tap water
- Everyone's lack of concern for safety
- Everyone's general disdain for strangers
- Getting the run around from my company when it's time to get paid
- Not being able to get a straight answer out of anyone
- Feeling like I'm risking my life every time I cross the street
Things I might miss or might not:
- People pushing/cutting in line - It's incredibly rude, but I'm good at it
- Never having to pay for a meal - Never being allowed to pay for yourself does get a bit insulting after a while
- Grocery Stores - They have some delicious surprises and some of the most foul "food" I've ever seen
- People watching - People act very differently in public than they do back home
- Chinese fashion - everyone tries to stand out and ends up looking silly
- Chinese ambition - People seem much more ambitious, but less creative here
- Strangers telling me I'm handsome - On one hand, it's very flattering. On the other, it's a very creepy way to start a conversation on the bus (which happened to me twice).
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