see you again

Tonight we visited the house of Mr. Jiang. He is in charge of the foreign students that come to this school. He reminds me of Jiminy Cricket with his smile and cuteness. He has a 2 story house with a nice kitchen, 3 bathrooms, and a ping pong room. We were treated to him playing the accordion and he amazed even though he claims he never has time to practice.

Tomorrow we're heading to Chairman Mao's mausoleum. I hope we have a creepy story to tell when we come back.

Picture of the Day:

'The Pink Stool'

Shut Up and Drive

The weather is changing and my body is falling behind.

I enjoy the fall season, but it's easier to fall into a depressed state than during the warmer months.

Ate at a pizza buffet today, but the best item available were the onion rings. They did have some good coffee and I heard my stomach thanking me for the warmth.


Picture of the Day:

'The Chairman'

Yeah, I could use a dryer

Today we learned to do calligraphy with paint brushes. Oh, excuse me. By learned I mean we wrote this (-) thirty-five times each. It was surprisingly difficult, yet, fun. Tad and I sat next to each other and compared arm length and height. We tied.

Tad: "How tall are you?"
Me: "I'm 6'3'. (1 minute passes). How tall are you?"
Tad: "6'3'. Well, I used to be."

The 5th Foreign Objects episode has been posted. No animals were harmed in the taping of this episode.

http://www.youtube.com/group/foreignobjects


Picture of the Day:

'Where are we?'

Beyond Liang

I picked up Capote today at the 10 yuan ($1.33) movie store down the street. I'm in love with it thus far. I was fortunate enough to have read In Cold Blood while on the forty plus hours of trains last week and it easily is one of the best books I have ever read. If you are looking for a distraction from academic text, pick up In Cold Blood. It will make you love reading again. All too often I find myself disliking words because of some stale class text, but I've found having a book on the side to read a little bit at night always helps. Did you know (Nelle) Harper Lee and Capote were life-long friends? I love learning of connections between people that I've been in the dark about my whole life. It makes me appreciate their works even more for some reason.

I want Japan more and more everyday.

While in Harbin and Dandong I took a healthy amount of pictures and instead of bombarding you with a million pictures at once, I'm going to pick out my favorites and highlight them over the next couple of days. I'm going to try my hand at titling them, as well. I'm feeling creative.


Picture of the Day:

'Not so China'

back with a BANG

Go listen to the new Cobra Starship song 'Guilty Pleasure'. It will lift you from your seat and make you dance all alone in your room.

This Way to Dancing


Photograph de la dia:

'oh my gosh, there is a tiger four feet from my head'

Aimless in Wonder

Sleep and I have not hung out in 36 hours. Expect some stories tomorrow about our trip, along with some amateur photography. Here's a teaser trailer:

So, we made it to Harbin

We are currently spending our third day in Harbin. We leave tomorrow morning for Shenyan, hopefully we'll find a bus, and then make the three hour trip south to Dandong.

Harbin is a beautiful city with clean air, nice people, and actual city qualities. We are the only white people here, the only people wearing shorts, and I'm pretty sure Nick is the only person wearing sandals.

We visited a tiger park yesterday. Let's just say we took a safari in a caged bus through fields of hundreds of tigers. The tigers actually leaned up against our cage as paying individuals held meat out for them to eat. They don't do this at the Brookfield Zoo. More stories soon.

Wish us luck. We should be looking out over North Korea in 2 days.