We've, on a whim (as in, woke up at 8, decided Alice would call in sick to work from Huangshan, claiming she couldn't get a bus back, packed up and ran to the bus station where we got on the only bus that day at 9:30 with a window of about 3 minutes), decided to come to Huang Shan (http://images.google.com/images?q=%E9%BB%84%E5%B1%B1&hl=zh-CN), ( Read more... )

Good Gosh how embarrassing!  I assume you all remember my last post where I said "FIRST CLASS SUCKAZZZZZZZZZ." Well, my lord have we been cheated!  We're currently (well, not CURRENTLY, right now I'm in an internet bar) on the worst boat EVER, the "Welcome Guest 2".  It's dirty, cramped and either too hot or too cold all the time.  Our "first class ( Read more... )

I'm doing that thing again where I put off posting for a really long time then wind up condensing my experiences from something lucid, yet overwhelmingly long into something so vague it's nearly not worth writing.
I'm again in Chongqing, preparing to take a boat through the three gorges in about three hours.  Before this I was in Guilin/Yangshuo, ( Read more... )

I am indescribably happy.

This is not hindered by the fact that I have a 7 hour lay-over in the Qingdao airport. 

Reason Asia is weird #7993:  the girls who went to AU in general speak much less English to me than people who didn't.  Talking to Nae Young about this, she suggests (quite correctly, I think), that it's about expectation.  They feel it's expected that they speak perfect English because they lived in America for two years.  But since they don't ( Read more... )

No better of a time could possibly be asked for.  We took a three day road-trip down south with none other than Nae-Young and Da-Eun who may be among the people I like the most in the world.  The first day we went to a huge lake and took a ferry ride.  When we boarded the ferry there was that same damn 60's/70's music that every asian country made ( Read more... )

Something I never mentioned here is the alarming linguistic gap present in modern Chinese vernacular ( Read more... )

The last two weeks or so in China were a reminder of everything I frickin' hated about the place.  Official bureaucratic bullshit that never ended, essentially everything that bothered us about China all year came back in the last two weeks ( Read more... )

also.  One more hilarious piece of "china."
The university in Yibin cut off the power so students couldn't stay up and watch the world cup.  Man I'm glad I'm not chinese.

Hi guys.  I swear I keep meaning to post, but I never actually sit down and do it.  News in brief ( Read more... )