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i'll miss:

* the crazy good and really cheap cheap food
* the old ladies who worked at the bun shop
* the woman at "our" restaurant who always made sure we were fed
* the little babies all bundled up like stars for the winter
* how easy it is to get everywhere
* the motorcycle rides
* the cheap dvds
* most of all, the people i've become ( friends with here )

my time here in china is beginning to wind down, and there's so much i want to say about it. the philippines were amazing. i want to go back. but i have to face what's in front of me, and what's here isn't pretty ( Read more... )

still in the 'pines! we leave tomorrow and fly out of clark air base located in the fair city of old euro men and their young pinay prostitutes. those poor girls look bored out of their skulls. i don't blame them, they sell viagra on the side of the streets there. "you! viagra! discount because you are underage!" mmm, no thanks, lovelies ( Read more... )

only 2 more months until i'm home! the hard part is finally behind me, but packing and planning is stressful. mostly, it's mundane things that are stressing me out like making everything fit and storing it until i get back from the philippines. but right now, timing is everything. i'm taking the bus to nanjing, then taking a taxi to the airport ( Read more... )

i'm so close to being done here, it's excrutiating. once this week is done, i am free! then it's eben, the philippines, africa, new york, boston, and home ( Read more... )

Top 10 Albums of 2005 That I Have Not Yet Heard Because I'm In Freaking China And It Killed My Laptop ( Read more... )

it's been done. the cost of tickets has been charged to my credit card. february 23rd (happy birthday carly!), i leave china and land in london. february 24th (happy birthday eben!), i leave london and land in dakar, senegal to spend 10 days with jacq-attack and celebrate my own birthday before i fly into new york city. while in new york, i ( Read more... )

i didn't think my situation in china would end up sucking so badly. but it is, and all the pictures i see of china, i laugh at. they don't show you all the false constructions they've built, all the spit and garbage. sometimes you wouldn't believe the smell. i know not all of china is like this, and i want so badly to find those little pockets ( Read more... )

went back to shanghai again, this time at the request of old family friend, enoch. he has all these crazy chinese hookups and is dating a hair model. zhu zhu, the girlfriend, was also a contestant for this american idol type competition put on by mtv china, and i attended the final performance. persuaded by mtv, i believed that this competition ( Read more... )