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For anyone who stumbles across this page this is where I will blog my adventure while studying in China. I started this because when I started I knew nothing other than to show up at the university on September 10th.. This will be my third time abroad, I have already studied in France and Japan.
My goal is to share the adventure and hope that someone other than my family and girlfriend will read it or learn something from it. Please look, read and comment.

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Sunday, November 9, 2008

What a Saturday


today was an awsome satruday. slept in real late. well i didnt go to sleep till 5 am i think. Or something close to that time frame. Slept till 1 in the afternoon. Watched some tv trying to find some friends to go play with. Afterall its a beautiful saturday afternoon in wuhan, what else would i do? Stay home and do homework? Ha! thats a last minuite project. Although that might explain my 65 on the grammer midterm. Which I am rather happy with! I could easily of made 10pts higher if I had not made the exact same silly mistake 4 times in a row... 50% of my mistakes i should of known better. The rest well... I deserved that. I just plain out forgot. Not that that hasn't happened before. But still...

Back to the story. Oh! So I ended up finding Vally was free. Thats right my number 1 gal pal vally! so I headed out to meet her. Well nothing exciting happened. Just a pretty bus ride down to her dorm. Pick her up and we set off. to where, well if you know me then you know I had no idea. Well Vally is a little too mmuch like me. which means everytime we go out we don't have a clue as to where we are going. we just start going.

But this is a good thing!! We started walking through the park and we found a bunch of highschoolers doing cosplay in the park. Yea its not just american highschool kids that want to be japanese! wow. So yea i got to dress up in what i assume was a bleach costume. It was fun! apparently i just missed the cosplay convention in the park. but i did get some phone numbers and now have a date for the next big thing. december 9th is a big cosplay event at thier highschool. BOYEA I am so wanting to go to that! A bunch of people dresssing up in costumes? FUN!

Then in the park we saw a bunch of people renting kites. But with no wind no kites. Otherwise I wanted to fly a kite. Vally said this is only for old men or little children. Apparently I don't fit in either catagory. When to Roni im an old man and to Alissa im just a child. Ha ha ha.

So what did Vally and I do you ask? Well we started walking talking about what we wanted to do. We stopped to pick up some french fries and fried yams. Awsome by the way, fried yams with a bit of cinnimon, or at least it taste like cinnimon. and we started walking to discuss what we wanted. The idea of a roller ring came up but she doesnt know how to skate. crane tower but it was too late in the day to go there. So east lake! well so we went to east lake. well actually we started walking east toward east lake. Then somehow we decided I was going to cook burritos for dinner. It was awsome goodness but that is for later.

The pictures on the right. In that bag are crabs and hedgehogs for sale on the street. Ive seen crabs, local crabs for dinner. Well alright i could understand that. But hedgehog? Why sell such a cute little pet when you are selling dinner? Well it was explained to me that the hedgehog is for dinner as well!!! Wow! I could'nt bring it home and kill it. Its not that it was fuzzy, i mean its a hedgehog its like the opposite of fuzzy but idk, those are a pet. But i would try it if it was on a menu. Meat is meat afterall.

WE did make it out to east lake. Some people fishing. looks like fun. A hook, line, and a long bamboo stick. nothing more complex that than. no reel, gadgets, fancy lures, depth finders. a long stick, string and worm... I like it.

Made it home, made some burritos. yea i am that awsome and it was good. except that the tortillas fell apart. they just tore. i need to buy some oil and try em next time. some tostadas.
so I had Vally, Serge, and Vally's friend Mayli for dinner. we had fun then watched mulan. YAY Mulan!!! Fun times. the went home and i posted this.
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Thursday, November 6, 2008

I need help

someone please try to explain to me the problem with small dogs?

they are wonderful!! Good creatures. They are like big dogs just without the monsterous poop. ike pugs or bulldogs. I love those. Who doesnt want a bulldog?



So mabye you don't have a dog in the house. What do you have? Everyone needs a pet.

I like the idea of bunny. They are great pets! Who doest like a bunny in the house? However somehow I had a discussion that somehow the only bunnies that are allowed in the house is a "manly" rabbit. can someone describe to me what a many rabbit is? What makes a rabbit manly? the cute little nose? The mean little face. The floppy ears? The way they hop around?



someone please explain the logic?

why is any small dog froofy?

How is a rabbit manly?

why are fish not a real pet?

woa

prop 8 passed??? Really?
Yay liberal power, dem pres and dem congress.
but california, the most liberal place on the planet now has a thing against gays. With San Francisco, LA, etc and just wow. Never should of passed. Terrible terrible terrible.
America is a place of freedom, love and chance at a life to your self.

For those who dont know prop 8 was a ban on gay marriage in california.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Congradulations

Mr. Obama congradulations! On the bright side he can't screw us up any more than we already are right? So hey only place to go is up!!

Wonderful speech by McCain. Wonderful speech. He lost with great respect.
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Finished my midterm. I think i did well. I think i got a C. Easily I got a C. Most was easy but there were just a few hanzi that i didnt know and killed me.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Tradegy!!


OH NO!

did you hear? FOX is canceling KING OF THE HILL!!

This is terrible. there is rumor that ABC will pick it up.

ABC PLEASE DO!!!




If king of the hill stops what will aunt gayle and i watch?
This is the best cartoon ever!



Keep the king on TV!




My friends who do not know of this tv show please go on the internet and try to watch. it is a cartoon. It is a comedy show about a family from Texas. If you want to know what my home is like. Watch this show. (so its not this hick but heck, Its still Texas)



A time Cruch

Wow what a time crunch!
So much to put down here and so little time.
Well its D-day. I want to stay up all night and and listen to the news and find out how its going to go. In england obama is favored, the betting is 8:1 and McCain is 1:6. wow wonder what that means.

I went shopping saturday with my main gal pal vally. wow it was so much fun. Vally thank you!! I had so much fun. Who wouldnt? I found coats, sweaters, scarves, hats, cd's, dinner, and more all for 100$ I love it! What an awsome weekend.

Well votes are in. the first group of votes in and so far 15 obama and 6 mccain. well its a start but a few more million people have yet to vote. so let's see...

I FOUND JACKIE CHAN!!! AWSOME! I have now 2 cd's of jackie chan. I feel awsome beyond cool right now. I need more!!! ahhh! also found some jay chou. i like him. but i have to be honest, i prefer his louder stuff. the soft pop stuff is not my favorite. i also found this guy GEORGE? I think its george lam? Is he popular? I like him. It is different.

ok back to studying. By the way i have a midterm tommorow!!! Wow timming.

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