I think I am becoming more Asian in China.

As hinted at by the title (rather obviously, don't you think?)...I think I am becoming more Asian in China, specifically Shanghai, even if I've only been here for around a week and a half. And by Asian, I don't mean that my eyes are getting smaller and smaller (hopefully also not because of the increased amount of food that I've been consuming over the last few weeks), but that I am becoming what my friends (and other people) call "azn." Since I can't really describe this phenomenon, I shall enumerate some things from my own experience that point to its existence.

1. Went kind of crazy over the Asian snack food aisle in the grocery, because of all the cute little characters (especially pandas) that are featured on the cookies and crackers. Bought a bunch of panda and bear cookies and crackers, and caramel popcorn in a bag that looks like it has a face on it.

2. Made a very funny and random video about eating panda crackers, where my sister and I were eating the crackers in a cutesy, Asian way, talking in high-pitched voices and smiling at our vain selves every few seconds.

3. My aunt has a dog, and we talk to it in high-pitched Chinese, telling it that it is "hen ke ai de."

4. I was going to say thanks to my sister and nearly spoke to her in Mandarin to say "xie xie ni." Just to clarify, we don't speak Chinese at home. Also my brain is starting to think in Chinese in small flickers.

5. Vain pictures of ourselves? No. Even worse--vain MOVING pictures of ourselves, thanks to Photobooth. And yes, we sent these out to other people, just to broadcast our Chinese proficiency and (to some degree, I must confess) our cute, random Asian-ness.