It’s located near the Walmart in the Valley.
Grade 4s.
A Canadian Comes Back from Being in China (2004-25)
Fragment is the means of expression of those who have
learned that man lives amongst fragments.
It was not uncommon for me in China to be called Laowai 老外 or overhear locals referring to me as 老外。 I could tell stories about this but I won’t.
I can remember walking down the street in Wuxi, seeing a vehicle pass by and heard the passengers saying 老外。
Other times, I would walk pass a group of local kids and they would jump up and down, and scream 老外!
I’d walk into a mom and pa shop in China and hear the proprietors exclaim 老外!
Today, I walked into one of Brandon’s many Asian grocery stores, and a Chinese customer saw me and said 老外 to that store’s proprietor. I said: wait a minute! This isn’t China!
There are people in Europe who have never heard of Manitoba.
A woman I was talking to in Parma, Italy thought of a type of flour called Manitoba flour.