I had another lesson with my Chinese tutor today, and I’m finally getting to the point where I can hold some level of (clunky) conversation, switching between Mandarin and English as we need. She lives in Xi’an and we were talking about lots of things like the weather and how it sucks is typically in FL. Then we got into how she has never visited America and wanted to know more about it. Fuck man. She was flabbergasted to the point of not believing she understood me properly when I explained that homeless people get arrested (more polite than saying get the shit kicked out of them or literally killed) for sleeping on public benches. I told her about private and public schooling, and about how I used to go to a richer private high school and there were still kids doing crazy shit like ripping soap dispensers off the walls to spray them everywhere, kicking in doors, and going 65 in the parking lot for fun. I didn’t even tell her about the fights. She was mortified and that isn’t even remotely bad by USian standards. Apparently the CPC recently mandated the amount of homework students recieve be decreased? I didn’t even know about that. Comedic level of juxtaposition.