I have made it to my hotel room in Changsha, Hunan, China and am doing fine. Changsha seems way more Chinese than Shanghai. I had to go to the special customes line for diplomats and the like because all the regular forigner lines were closed for the night. While the border guard did speak some English he did prefer me to anwser in Chinese and only seemed to vaguly understand the student visa system. He was ready to get angry at me for entering on a cancelled visa before he relized that having a cancelled X1 student visa means you were issued a residency permit which lets you into the country. I guess they don't see many forign students. The airport cabbie didn't understand my spoken Chinese at all, he did understand my written Chinese so everything worked out in the end. Once at the hotel, the lady at the desk could only communicate with me through her phone's translator. I did get my room, even though I am now Mr. Jared, Mr. Paul Miller Jared to be specific.
South East Asia retrospective at some point soon.
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Dad
1/16/2017 01:31:56 am
So funny they r as confused by the last name as Surname as we r by the Asian first name surname.
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Jared Paul Miller
1/16/2017 09:46:36 am
I should do a full post on this at some point but I think the fact that I have three legal names that I actually use confuses people here. I think a lot of the Chinese know that Western names are backwards from Chinese names (family name last given name first instead of family name first given name last), but people don't seem to know what to do with the middle name so they try to stick it anywhere it makes enough sense.
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