Things we miss

* buying food in bulk - cereal comes in tiny boxes that contain maybe two bowlfuls. When feeding 13 kids, we have to buy a lot of small boxes of all sorts of items.
* customer service - I took SeRa to the mall to get a charger for her Samsung cell phone. Several stores sold the phone but not the charger and couldn't/wouldn't order it in. No one seemed particularly interested in helping us. Often salespeople will crowd around the counter chatting and you have to say "excuse me" to pay for your stuff.
* space - people are everywhere all the time, even on campus.
* teaspoons and knives - most Asian people use a fork and what we call a soup spoon to eat with. They use the edge of the spoon as the knife and to scoop food onto the fork. I've seen teaspoons occasionally but we don't have any in the dorm kitchen so we eat ice cream with the big spoons.
* pedestrian crossings - you take your life in your hands crossing the streets here. Pedestrians have no right of way and so they walk onto the roads when an opening becomes available and they may have to wait on the centre line dodging traffic until they make it all the way across. I wanted to stop for some pedestrians but was told that would only make the situation worse because I would be the only one to stop. Just north of the school we had an overhead walkway that goes to the Hillside stalls and 7-11 store so the students use it all the time.