Turning Chinese

Immersion has its pros and cons in the habits acquired and frustrations and illuminations. I am acquiring more and more Chinese habits.
I feel most Chinese when I am eating my rice and vegetables with chopsticks in one hand and text messaging like a fiend with my other hand. Chinese people are constantly text messaging. At dinner, when walking down the street, in class, on the bus, anywhere and everywhere they are text messaging and so am I.
I first got in the habit because talking to a Chinese person on the phone can be terribly frustrating. Their listening skills are not good (just like my Chinese listening skills), but they read quite well, so it is more effective to send text messages. One reason the Chinese use text messaging is that the Chinese mobile phone network does not have voicemail. Another reason is that text messages a very cheap to send. It costs more to call. They do not have set free minutes on their mobile phones, they always pay by the minute and it is all pre-paid. The bad part about pre-paid phones is that sometimes a person's phone will run out of money at night when China Mobile is closed. This used to happen to me often, but it is avoidable now; mainly because I learned how to read the messages China Mobile would send telling me I had 10 yuan left on my phone.
Since I started classes at the university my Chinese has greatly improved, but I am also picking up different verbal expressions and integrating them when I speak English. Like if anything is minorly annoying or upsetting or will take require some work I will use, "Ai-ya!" It is a very useful expression. I have also adding a clicking/tisking sound to the end of my sentences which lets a person know you are done speaking but maybe can't express yourself any further. Though Chinese has verbal exclaimation points and question marks I haven't integrated those into my English speaking.
I have also picked up some good habits, like drinking tea all day. I have acquired a small collection of tea at my desk: chrysanthamum tea from Zhejiang province, green tea from Tianmu Lake, and white tea from Liyang that I am supposed to keep in the refridgerator. (I just got the white tea today and I don't have a fridge, so Thursday I will go buy a small fridge for my room. I will have to convince the hotel to take one of the chairs out of my room though because otherwise there won't be space for it.) I also walk a lot and take the bus. Though I don't like it, I am also in the habit of waking up early and going to bed early.
I have managed to avoid most bad habits, like hawking loogies on the pavement and yelling when I am talking. The Chinese yell a lot, but they are usually just talking about something. All of them have the ability to talk incredibly loudly and forcefully. However, if I am eating I will spit out the bones on the table like Chinese do. The Chinese don't believe in boneless, so when you eat any kind of meat it will still have the bones. Because I am aware of it I don't think it will be a difficult habit to break when I get back to the US.
Last year I carried a small notebook everywhere I went to write down useful words, directions, or anything else. I am pretty proud that I don't need to carry the book with me anymore, but I will keep it so I can remember all those first things I learned and needed with me every day.