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It took months and on the verge of leaving china i think i figured out how to get QQ!
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Who is Free Sunday night

I don't think many will see this but please if you are free sunday night please let me know. I want to go out to eat with my friends! So if you read this email me!!

Back in wuhan

Hello hello!
i am back in wuhan! I hope to see all my wuhanese friends again! I will try to call all of you tonnight. or at leaast to the betst of my abilities. I want to see all of you before i leave! Mabye we all can go out to eat this weekend mabye? Please email me to let me know when you are available. I am thinking saturday or sunday evening? or mabye another day is better.

I will load photos when i et the chance. i have 12 gb of photos to work through.

So much fun!

i love DIY

so i found these guides to build the minority report computer input. use your hands to control a computer. so i wanna use a glove and build the ultimate home remote!!

ha ha this si so cool chek this out

http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

Beijing

So what have i done here in beijing?

First day, Arrived to early

next day meet mom and aunt gayle

So since then Went on the great wall. 5 hour hike. that was great fun. and i didnt give a whip about them rushing us sayin we were taking too long.

we went shopping and a bit overwhelmed. woo

had some great tea. and we definantly are going to buy more. the teas here are amazing. buy a
couple kg's of diff teas. it can get expensive. some are up to 40$ for half a kilo.

yesterday meet up with chenwei. that was fun. the meeting spot was closed off. why they close tiananmen square i have no idea. but we still meet up with her, it was just a little difficult. we went out to hotpot. that was great. a bit spicey but it was good. Chenwei though aunt gayle was better at chopsticks than mom!! oh and she learned the phrase, full as a tick.





today we went to the summer palace. bought some trinkets. then we went for duck. Wow it was pricy but itwas really worth it. it made it all the difference. the quality was awsome. they carved the bird at the table. fried eggplant.

mom now is downstairs wanting to get liqure'd up... ha ha

The Big Let Down

So i found out that i didnt get hte RA Job. The job that pays for half my college, making it affordable. After waiting and waiting I emailed and asked what waas going on, why have I heard nothing and then I get a response that i didn't get hte job. Wow thats great. So now i have to hope someone quites and i can somehow weasle my way into thier slot.

without the RA job I really don't know how i will afford college. College just doubled in price for me. Wow and then I have to deal with a room mate??? well thats only a huge disapointment.

well i guess its time to look into friends and hte appt? this is not fun. i really needed that job. i hate that they choose a newbie over me. for the only reason i can see is that it is inconvient to talk to me. But it could be i am just undesirable to hire. I may be a little bias.

PHOTOS

Iam not taking time to like sort them, edit them or to really figure out which ones are good. this is just a small sample. i loaded aonthoer 70 or so to the albumbs. look for the bad \folder naming. i need to head out to the airport to mee mom so i have other things to deal with. but hey some photos. i tell you i had areal scare. i thought i lost 700 photos. didnt. just a folder naming problem. woo boy i was really really freaked out there. no i still have the 1300 photos. so ok. some are on the net.

ok so quick what happened to me?
well i took the 26 hour train ride. the cheap mp3 player i bought (10$) works fine. its a little sckety. the problem was the computer i was using was corrupt and donwloaded like 10% of some of the audio books. so like the book would just stop mid sentence. nothing worse than that when your in the iddle of exciting scene. so yea. 26 hours.

huge audio overload. idk how its done. you ahve the PA system giving anouncements, baby crying, a conductor selling pure crap, a moview showing, and a few people blaring thier music fomr their cell phones. yea no idea how that all works. or why people start drinking beer at 8am. i mean i know its a long train ride but seriously? 8am is EARLY to drink any beer.

so i got in last night. only it turns out mom didnt come yesterday. she comes today. so woo my not understanding the time difference. so its like midnight and i have to make my way to the ote other end of the city. bak to beijing backpackers hostel.

i get in a t like 130 am. wake up at 830. so i have breakfast and i loaded some photos. download some books. and woopiee!!

ok off to the airport!!

lets try blogging again

so lets blog!
ill try this again. i dont have anywhere to go for 5 hours. i should be able to report well.
So im in guiln soo nto head to beijing.

but from where i left off.
where did i leave off? im not going to check. i am going to assume i wrote about the horse trip.

so i come down to guilin. I didnt bring the card with the address or directions. i htought it was in my wallet but it was not. go me! its 10pm im tired and i have no idea where the hostel is. so i figure lets walk till i find an internet bar, info kiosk somewhere where i can check Hostelworld.com. about an hour later i find a place. the entier time this chinese guy is following me telling me lets stay at this hotel, "i will pay" he says. yea dogey as you can get. really started to creep me out. i find this information kiosk and they check. Really nice lady. Turns out the hostel is 120m across the street from the train station. less than a min walk. ha ha. so lets hike back to the station and voila there it is.

check in is quick and painless. the next day i spent the afternoon walking around the city. elephant trunk hill. "the senic" spot. I also check out reed flute cave. Amazing cave, never saw any reeds or flutes. the cave is a bit odd. the chinese way of sprucing up nature. the cave is enormous with some amzing geological structures. but here its lit up with colored lights. so its purple, blue, red, green geological structures. its kinda neat i must admit. but at the same time its a bit disney land. in the middle there is even a light show complete with bubble machines, laser lights etc. its just kina like "is this needed?"

then i took the bus that night down to yangshou. Definantly THE place to be. Found that hostel easy enough. It is damp, moldy and one grouchy staff member. but it is cheap and well located... win some you lose some.

sadly my first day was not great. went out took a bike and started cycling. was good fun but in the middle of nowhere i broke hte bike. i guess it hit a rock or what but the rear gear shifter was destroyed. took 5 hours to get the thing replaced. I had to replace it becaus otherwise i would lose my huge deposite. had to talk the bike back then find a store that would replace it cheap. they all wanted me to buy this high end gear shifter... its just a rental. just make it work enough.

the next day was so much better once i got back to the hostel.

meet some awsome people down there. spent one day with ryan from chicago cycling like madmen through the mud and dirt. took a bamboo boat ride down the river. then hit a great dumpling place for some dumplings and tea. next day went out with a group of 9 to the other end of hte country side at the lead of 3 israeli girls. I can't pronounce thier names so i will not even try to spell them. 3 israeli girls, us 2 american guys, 2 from the UK and one from singapore and you cant forget the two aussies. amazing time. great great fun. \

we all went back to the same restaurant for beer duck, beer fish, potatoes, eggplant, dumplings, veggies and popcorn. it was an awsome meal. stayed up till 3 am talking and laughing. sadly we got kicked off to bed by the grumpy staff member. i get she was tryin to sleep but its the lobby and we payed to stay there. if we want to talk and laugh till 3am thats what we pay for.

the next day went off with another group of people and cycled around. found a random hill and climbed it. just because we could. that night we went and ate some crawfish and duck. the duck is amazing down here. but of course duck always is

odd things...
well i saw a dude on a motorbike rounding up dogs for the market. they are everywhere out here. just hundreds of dogs.

damion found hte mountain cows. cows that live in the mountains, bounding around the rocks like goats. Its a mountain cow!!

so i came back from yangshou have to meet mother tommorow in beijing. i ended up getting my train ticket HALF OFF! always go to the train station to buy the ticket. show the student id card and wam 50% off. sweet! he also found me a cheaper ride. so it went from 400 koai down to 120! awsome!!

later that day i went with tina, a german girl who studies psychology, great girl very interesting. we spent hte entire day walking around the city talking. then all evening walking around the markets buying street food. that is fun stuff. i will miss street food. not even kknowing what i am ordering.
saldy i think i cought a bit of a cold. im sneezing and a bit stuffy. but im better today than i was yesterday.
that is what im doing now. just killing time till the train

Down to warmer weather... err... not exactly.

so first report on chengdu.
sorry still cant find a place to upload pictuess. i have 1300 photos. none to share yet. sorry my friends.

so i spent 3 days in the mountains. it was awsome. cold. but awsome. i didnt know it was going to be so cold. so the first thing i did when i got there was to go find a warm set of clothes. it ended with finding a place to buy tibetian clothes. i bought a tibetian robe. so freakin warm. its so cool. its like a giant fur lined bath robe.

i had a lot of fun . i have to run ill update later