back in sunny beijing. i went to the grocery store upon returning to bei wai, which only reconfirmed that this exchange rate is absolutely mind-blowing. for 10 USD, this is what i bought ( Read more... )

We are back in Guilin. I'm ready for this trip to be over. I got food poisoning and barely ate anything in three days. The crazy thing is that it was almost exactly like the time I had to go to the clinica in Bolivia (where they gave me Cipro - a hardcore antibiotic). This time they just gave me some Chinese traditional medicine and I was ( Read more... )

I am currently writing from an internet cafe in Kunming, Yunnan (Province). The weather is beautiful here, like California. Here I can see the mountains, green grass, colorful flowers, and, even though the air still looked polluted as the airplane descended into the city, I still feel like the quality of air has significantly increased. I have ( Read more... )

现在我不舒服。 昨天晚上我喝最了。

also, why do i stay friends with people who i know are mean?

i got pretty drunk last night. i realized that i have been molded into a certain type of drunk by my gw buddies. i ended up just passing out last night which i think was for the best because i was about to start saying really raunchy things and i don't think they would have understood where i was coming from haha. rita would have though

so get this: it is the coldest month of the year in beijing, around, say, 20 degrees outside give or take ( Read more... )

hahahah i am so stupid

今天很有意思. 我们去一个 amway 的办公室包饺子. 我们的 RA 有一个朋友在那工作. 不知道. 很有意思. 包饺子不太难. 现在我有中国文化(anth class)的功课 =P blah, 我很不喜欢功课. 我在中国应为我要说汉语, 不在中国做功课. 非常本. 我need to be able to input simplified characters 可是我不懂电脑. [obviously i am on another computer editting this.] aya. hangin out with chinese people today was so nice though because i haven't really felt like ( Read more... )

tonight we went to a bar and when we came back they had me sit in the front of the cab, so i just started talking to the cab driver in chinese. it was crazy. i was like, i dont speak chinese! once you take away the nervousness (like, you know, by drinking for example), speaking a language is a lot easier. it was kinda awesome actually ( Read more... )

the cover of the notebook I bought at the grocery store says the following in tiny print:

"Our finest quality paper
ensures a smooth surface that
is a pleasure to write on.
This is the most comfortable
notebook you have ever run into.
You will feel like writing
with it all the time."