ok, my parents came from china, and back when they were kids, they changed their clothes once every 2 weeks, didn't use deoderant, didn't shave facial hair etc. so i know about all these things of course, but i'm just having a tough time telling my parents wut i should be doing because i'm shy even around my parents.
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Pooberty..lol.. i'm serious
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Where did they come from in China? Although the living standards are lower there than they are here, that sounds unusual. Not changing for a couple of weeks, they couldn't have lived in any of the major cities.Relating to your problem, you'll just need to suck it up and tell them. Talk casually and try not to mumble or be overly shy. It may be embarassing at first, but the more times you talk about embarassing stuff the easier it gets.
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Where did they come from in China? Although the living standards are lower there than they are here, that sounds unusual. Not changing for a couple of weeks, they couldn't have lived in any of the major cities.No necessarily. My parents grew up in the capital of Kazakhstan and that's not exacly a small remote town - it was an active part of the USSR. When they were children and had to wear uniforms at school, the same outfit that they wear would get washed once a week, maybe once in two weeks. Noone wore deodorant because it was an expensive luxury. The had to get up at 5 am practically everyday so they can go and stand in a huge line to get a roll of toilet paper, or milk, or bread. The house where I lived for the first year of my life didn't even have plumbing...diapers were unheard of.
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I know all about Kazakhstan. Im hoping after my bid to climb Denali, that I hope to make this coming summer, thats next on my list, a trip to Kazakhstan to climb the yellow wall. That place has mostly unclimbed stone.Seeing as how you have some history there you may want ot read a book called over the edge? I think that was it. True story about some american climbers who were taken hostage there when they were forced off a wall from a portaledge and held captaive for ransome for a few days before they pushed one of thier captors over a cliff and ran.Beena few years since I read the book but it happened in the last 4 or 5 years.
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I hope you didn't just ruin the ending of the book.
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captured by whome? the mountain dwelling Kazakhs?
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I just heard an interview with David Roberts, who wrote On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined. Apparently, losing your life sucks, but the effect it has on the people you leave behind really sucks.