1) It can be spelled lots of different ways.

Hohhot. Huhhot. Haohuhate ( or something). These are all spellings you can expect to see for my city. All are correct. All are used. Weird, huh?

2) Not everyone in China is against the whole facebook-blocking thing,

I actually talked to one student who made a good argument for it! He told me that in China, a lot of people are not very well educated. This means that they will believe whatever people tell them. So, some people use sites like Facebook to push their ideals that are against the government, and they will probably be able to garner some backing because of the uneducated. How sad L

3) Pencils in china don’t have erasers.

Like, none of the pencils. You never really appreciate the ease of having your eraser attached to your writing instrument until it is not anymore. Maybe they realize they can make more money by selling the erasers separately, and making them look like Disney characters? Who knows? I do know, however, that not having an eraser on the pencil leads to the kids sharpening both ends of the pencil and little broken bits or eraser all over my classroom floor.