we've been running around everywhere in hong kong for the last 4 days and im tired. HK is beautiful - it has bunches of skyscrapers, and is actually quite clean considering what I was expecting. The roads are completely litter free - only the occasional spots on the sidewalk. The Hong Kong skyline at night is really the most beautiful one i've ever ( Read more... )

everything translates rather funny in hong kong...
chinese sign of the day:

Tong Fuk beach ->

the girls there must be very talented.

Manila was sickening. I don't think I've eaten more food ever in my life. It was like eating fogo de chao for breakfast, waiting an hour, eating fogo de chao for lunch, waiting an hour, eating fogo de chao for post-lunch, waiting an hour, eating an unbelievably large dinner, then eating again after dinner. We went out every night for really big ( Read more... )

I'm in manila, Phillippines. I've met so many people since yesterday that theyre all really blurring together in my mind. Our flight left Atlanta Thursday at 8:30 (we got up at 5), and we arrived in Manila at midnight Saturday morning, after 3 hour layovers in Hong Kong and LA. I got my first ever full-swivel check-out from a group of three girls ( Read more... )

as stated above, I will be leaving for a trip with my family to Hong Kong and Manila this Thursday... very eeearrrly in the morning (like 6...). Tomorrow I will be headed to a memorial mass for Adam Towler, and I'm working my butt off tonight to finish the calligraphy piece I want to send to his family: it's in gothic font, and has the following ( Read more... )

So basically since Ive got back from Germany its been one big vegg-fest (sp?). Ive been playing Ultimate in a summer league, twice a week tues/thurs in sketchy parts of metro atlanta: we play off of maynard terrace on Tuesday (you can see some inner-city kids setting off fireworks some days), and in Grant Park on Thursdays. But its a lot of fun, ( Read more... )

Just today at 3:30 I received a voicemail from one of my best friend's ex-girlfriends.
My intended suitemate for next year (before he was planning to transfer to Georgetown),
Adam Towler, was shot to death and killed. Please keep him in your thoughts, and prayers
if you have some to spare.

AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII GHANA!!!!!

livejournal is a bastard. I spent 30 minutes trying to get the cuts to work right on the last two entries. No success. sorry ( Read more... )

Here's what I meant to finish yesterday. Feel free to start reading wherever you wish. but please comment if you read it, id be very impressed (thanks kat!)

Tuesday 6-6-06

7:30 wakeup. Got a baguette w/ gouda and black forest ham for breakfast, then headed the the station solo at 8:15, where I got my ticket to Dachau and got on the train (my dad has ( Read more... )