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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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Friday, March 20, 2009

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/

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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

Thursday, March 12, 2009

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!!



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