During yet another phenomenal weekend spent with Chinese friends (and fellow foreign friends, too), I at last remembered to ask about a question which has intrigued me, and many others, I'm sure, for years.
As any American child knows, any time that you dig a deep hole, people ask if you are digging to China. Or, if you are a child similar to the child that I was, digging all the way to China is your actual intent. Ever since I was a little girl, I have wondered if Chinese people do the same thing in reverse. When they did a hole, do they say that they are digging to America?
So, yesterday my friend Kathryn and I, while out on a stroll with Maggie, decided to answer this ageless question. Maggie was quite amused to hear about our childhood adventures of digging to China. But, sadly, she informed us that the Chinese do not do the same thing in reverse. She had, in fact, never heard of such a thing, delightful as she found it.
And so, dear friends, the answer is no. But perhaps that is subject to change -- Maggie really liked the idea of digging a hole to America!
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