A strange thing

A strange thing transcribed while I was holed up over the weekend. It would seem that the Chinese workers in the shopping complex beneath our office building have been replaced by other Chinese with perfect English. Since we have had the chance to be here for several days and therefore come to recognize many members of every staff, it seems in many cases that this is not simply a few of the same crew members who have extra shifts, but an entirely different front end staff brought into the McDonald's, the Pizza Hut, the coffee shop... and even the taxi drivers are miles better at English than last week (though that's more a result of exposure).

But it's great, because the Chinese are helping me with Chinese (I can sufficiently order my English Breakfast tea for caffeination) while I can help explain why we English speakers call "hoong cha" (red tea) black (we reference the leaves while the Chinese reference the water).

One world, one dream indeed.