FEELING AT HOME

  So many people ask me: Did you experience culture shock, David? And I go "no," not that I know of.

  And they are surprised because they have many...not many...but they have met Americans who say that they wanted to go home so quickly. They arrived and very shortly they said they wanted to be back at home.And they say they had to stay.It's a job. And they became more accustomed.

  I never felt I wanted to go home at any point. It was just another... in stead of a company full of Italians, it was a company full of Chinese. It didn't affect me a great deal. The food is wonderful. I love the food. But I stay for the people.

  (You like Chinese people.) I like the Chinese people. (Most of them find it's difficult to live here. They sick all the time.) er...Sick, right.(Yeah, they get sick all the time.)

  I hope this is real wood. Western culture knock on wood means good luck.I knock on wood and say "good luck! I haven't gotten sick."

  Almost two years now I haven't gotten sick and I hope this isn't the beginning of something, by saying it.But I've been healthy, and I've been well.

  You know. I had some...one thing, bad throat. I don't call a bad throat sick.It's like a cold in the winter, the flu. Are you sick? You expect it. I was in Inner Mongolia, in Baotou, a steel city, lots of pollution, in the winter, terrible. My throat got bad in the winter, during the terrible pollution times.