Notes from the Mango Farm 8 of 10

Tuesday, 10/20

Day 11

On the farm, you have to think about every movement: "I'm going to take a shower, I should drop off my dirty clothes in the wash on the way, also I still gotta make tomorrow's lunch, etc..." As I mentioned before, time is precious, and using time wisely helps to save some time to relax.

Here I've improved my Mandarin a lot, today I've learned a new idiom, 強龍不壓坻頭蛇 (Qiang2Long2Bu4Ya1Di4Tou2She2) from Chris, a Taiwanese guy that's been traveling Oz with his cousin. It literally means, "A strong dragon doesn't step on the local snake."

Chris was in Perth (in Western Australia, birthplace of the late Heath Ledger RIP) before coming to Darwin and he was working at a bar there. At the bar, some drunk guy said to him: "You fucking asian!" Chris just smiled and ignored him and went along his business. To Chris, he knows he's a cool guy, but here in a foreign country, he believes that it's not his place to insult the locals even if they insult him first. Chris said, "Anyways the guy was drunk, so it's probably better just to ignore him."

I'm not sure if I could've done the same. As one of my friends would say, "My pride won't let me do that."

I think it would be cooler if I got some back up and...