China from Clara's perspective. This didn't happen too often in Shanghai, but occurred often when we left the city. Clara drew a lot of attention. I took this picture of nearly every passer-by turning to look at Clara. We were standing in a market in Chengdu.
We regularly came across Chinglish signs like this. The baffling thing is that there are many Chinese people with excellent English. Who is doing the translation work? Why are the less capable English-speakers employed in this job? I'm sure there is a reason - perhaps not a high paying occupation, which you can find if you have great English.
A Chinese game for children.
A beautiful clear sky day in Shanghai.
Our local grocery store sold turtles that you could buy to bring home as a pet (they also sold larger ones intended for the dinner table). On our last visit to this grocery store we realised that they had now started painting the shells of the turtles. There are so many jobs in China that just do not exist in Australia - turtle shell painter.
The childrens' school cafeteria got an upgrade and looked great. It cracked me up when the kids told me that a school assembly had been held and all children were instructed to no longer call it the cafeteria, it must now be referred to as the 'restaurant'. That is a wood-fired pizza oven in the second picture and there was also a sushi bar, so perhaps they have a point.
I saw this pop up in my pictures and had a little chuckle. I had too many conversations like this. In this one I was asking our (professional) driver to drive the correct way around round-a-bouts. He seemed to just pick a direction at whim. One day he almost ran into a cyclist, so I decided it was time to straighten things out and point out that you really need to follow the directional arrows! To his credit he did follow the arrows after that.
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