On the flip side

These are just a few of the aspects in daily life in China that give me a wonderful feeling:

1) Chinese ladies performing their morning red fan dance exercise routines;

2) Workers on bamboo scaffolding outside my window singing to amuse themselves while re-surfacing the buildings faade;

3) Men and women in the street hawking their wares and services repeatedly, for example: Mantou! Mantou! Mantou! (although I cant stand the recorded messages that loop incessantly!);

4) Morning greetings and warm smiles from neighbors and local merchants

5) Grandparents taking their grandchildren to school, or happily carrying toddlers around with them all day.

6) People playing ErHu on the sidewalk to earn money