Questions and Lovers

After a couple days last week, I was convinced Chinese kids have a limited bank of 3 questions they draw from:

-Why do you look Chinese?
-Do you like the NBA?
-Do you have a girlfriend?

I believe only one class failed to ask all three of these. And all three were met with "oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh" and "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh." And for those of you who know me rather well, I answered question #3 with a resounding "yes."

In fact, the story of how I met my girlfriend got more and more complex as the days went on. It went from:

-Yes, she's in America, not here, sorry.

to

-Yes. I met her in college, when I was 20. In America we have these huge rooms with 300 students, and one day this girl sat down next to me and spilled coffee on me. And that's how we met.

I wonder if they caught wind of my complexity, because ever since then their questions got even more complex too. Here's a nice sample, grammar corrected.

-What do you think about the Iraq war?
-What do you think about the relationship between America and China?
-When do you think we'll have robots in our houses?

But, my personal favorite.

-How many lovers do you have?

Chinese kids...