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Best Date Ever
So this guy I met online wanted to meet up with me, and I was thinking where to go. He was pretty good-looking, so I suggested we go to the sauna, which really just gave me an excuse to see him naked. BUT the way I told him was that I was going to the sauna anyway, so you might as well join me. He agreed, a little too quickly lol ( Read more... ) -
inside jokes from study abroad
English 成语 ( Read more... ) -
419
419, four one nine, kind of sounds like "for one night" hence in Chinese internet slang "419" means one night stand ( Read more... ) -
Coming out in China
I just came out of the closet about two months ago while I was here in China. After I turned 28, two years away from being 30, I thought to myself, "How many more years am I going to pretend to be straight ( Read more... ) -
Never Miss the Train
So me and my British friend Ashraf got to the train station 5 minutes late for our train from Wenzhou to Guangzhou. I'll never forget the words, "kai le" (the train has taken off ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
So my adventure in China is soon coming to an end ( Read more... ) -
Obama
Chinese people love Obama. Anyway, some guy was riding a bicycle next to me and kept yelling "Obama" and kept saying random stuff that I did not understand. My Chinese friend was with me and she didn't even understand what he was saying, except "Obama" in Chinese which sounds almost the same in English ( Read more... ) -
Are You Chinese?
ok so I called my roommate's cell phone, and a Chinese person picked up. I tried to meet up with her to get my roommates cell back. Anyway, I really didn't know what she looked like, so I saw someone with a cell phone in hand, and I asked her in Chinese if she had my friend's cell phone. She obviously had no idea, so I told her, "suan le" ( ( Read more... ) -
Local Art
These were all done by local high school students. One of the themes seemed to be 反對暴力 （to be against violence)
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Fujian province
A while back, I went to Fujian province to see Tai Mu Shan （太姥山）and it was one of the most incredible (and cleanest) places I have seen in China. It gave me the impression for the first time that China is not just a place with overcrowded and dirty cities. Also, some Buddhist monks treated us to lunch at one of the temples on The Mountain, and I ( Read more... )
