The Lemmertorium

Getting examined for your work visa in China is an interesting process. One thing we found interesting and a little a scary, was that they didn’t list positive or negative on our blood types. When we asked Chinese friends about this, they had no idea what we were talking about. It’s been about 4 years since we got back from China and I finally decided to investigate a little further. Thanks to Wikipedia, I found this information: Over 99% of Asians are Rh positive.  So I figure, because almost everyone is, they just don’t test for it.  The scary thing is (as one of my mathematician friends pointed out), this could leave up to about 30 million people that are negative, not to mention expats living there. We are planning to go back to China this summer, so right now I’m pretty glad that I’m positive.
Another interesting thing about blood types in China is that most Chinese people believe that your blood type is related to your personality.  Fortunately for me, O is considered to be a nice and generous personality.  Actually, fortunately for the world, because O is the most common blood type in almost all races.

I stopped by Jared’s blog the other day and noticed a post entitled “coryandlacey“. It was written a while back, but I took the time to run it through a translator. This is what Jared said:

“Cory and lacey had to return to homeland, had the trifle moved! Once together was spending together the happy time regarding these two american, I now did not know had to say any! Only can be wishes their good luck! First time meets by chance is in Yucheng in the one, had not thought after the college entrance examination the summer vacation could in the more than half month time, at that time we become the friend together! Has the friend to come from the distant place, delight! Much less is two foreign friends! Did not know because any they must return to homeland ahead of time, the summer vacation distinction became parted forever!”

It was a really nice post. It was written in Chinese, and there are simply no good translators on the internet to make it sound right, but you get the idea.

Thanks Jared, we miss you too!

Apparently McDonalds thinks so. Ads in China can be pretty crazy, and it’s always great to see something that makes sense to a Chinese person come out completely crazy when viewed by a westerner.

In this ad Yao Ming is either making bull horns while encouraging people to eat beef, or he’s worshipping Satan. You be the judge.

From: One Billion Users and Shanghaiist

[tags]Yao Ming, Satan, McDonalds[/tags]

China holds a special place in my heart. Lacey and I lived there for 9 months, and have only recently returned. Whenever I hear interesting news about the country, and especially it’s relation to the US, I plan to blog about it.

That brings us to today’s news from Atlanta. A panda cub has recently been born, and in a ceremony was named “Mei Lan“, or “Beautiful Atlanta“.

You can check out the article here, and here’s a short video of the MeiLan taking her first steps.

Technorati Tags: China, Panda

Sorry its been so long since we’ve posted! I’m not that great at it (I don’t even know how to put pictures up with posts) and Cory hasn’t felt like it. He says that now that we’re not in China nothing is exciting enough to post about. I figure people still want to know what we’re up to. Anyway, we haven’t even posted galleries from our Meizhou trip or our parents in Beijing yet. So hopefully we’ll get some of those pictures up soon. Basically, Cory’s right though. We aren’t leading that exciting lives anymore. We are trying to find jobs in NE and SD right now, looking at three cities mainly. We are just pingponging back and forth between our parents’ houses. So we are still jobless and homeless. And we miss China. But things are going pretty good. We are getting excited about a few job and art opportunities, excited to be home for Christmas, and have had fun doing a lot of talks in churches about our experience in China. So thanks for all your support and we hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving and are home with family to enjoy it.