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As an American, living overseas has many challenges, simple tasks are never straightforward and the concept of time has an entirely different meaning.
China 1994...
You seriously could not get more than one thing done a day, if you needed to do some banking, pay a bill and mail a letter...forget it!
Transportation was horrendous, by the time you made it to your destination it would be lunch and then everybody closed up shop for the next three hours to sleep.
China 2016...
Thankfully it is possible to knock out several things now in one day, you can do your banking, pay a bill and mail a letter...no problem.
Transportation does still have delays but nothing like before and lunch is down to one hour.
The years have brought growth and development but the understanding of what timing is has been misfiled somewhere between 'we should get to that' and 'not so much'.
So to my family and friends who are just now receiving my cards in the mail from China...
Merry Christmas!
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