Why hello, yall.
Thanks to Lee’s brilliant know-how about firewalls, I can post on blogs once more. Not that I really used to do it that often. I find writing these things tedious at times, cathartic at others, so I guess it will be what it will be.
We leave for Thailand tomorrow morning, I’m pretty much more excited about that than I have been about anything ever, mostly because the weather in Wuhan is what I imagine hell is like for all those people who believe in it. Cold, cloudy, dirty, cough inducing. Thailand on the other hand is 90+ degrees so um, I may die of happiness when we arrive in the airport. That and of course the food. We heard there is a Burger King in Bangkok. Yes, I will travel around the world and still eat at fast food restaurants. If you haven’t traveled to a 3rd world country and had a double cheeseburger, you just won’t understand.
In seriousity, I am excited for the curry and other new things. Avocados? I will keep my fingers crossed. Also some of my friends from Millikin and 2 professors will be in Thailand only 3 hours south of Bangkok, so I will swing down there and see them. That should prove to be quite interesting and undoubtedly hilarious.
After Thailand we will go back to China and go to Shanghai for a few days, which will be pretty cold I would imagine. So I don’t really know how we’re going to deal with that… buy coats in the airport? Walk around wearing everything we bought? Sounds pretty good to me.
Last night was our last night on the town, it was pretty glorious. All of our available friends were there, 2 Americans named Casey and Julie who are really cool, our first Chinese friend Linda who brought cake for her birthday, our friend Ray who is Chinese, B Rock who is Chinese, Vivian Shen, and Huang Wei. Our table was full of cakes and pies for Linda as well as the default glass jug 1/8 full of vodka, 7/8 juice (this still is decried as strong by Chinese people, whereas us Americans drink about 8 glasses of this drink in 5 minutes). I watched in awe as Lee got on a stage with Chinese girls, followed by a few Chinese men, who proceeded to grind on him as all the Chinese girls exited the stage. Soon it was just Lee and guys on the stage, a hilarious sight. We picked out our respective targets, a.k.a. who we would try to talk to by the end of the night. Lee’s girl turned out to be 17, and the tall boy with sunglasses on was “gay” according to my friend Linda. He did a dance for me though, which was downright stunning.
We then went to another club down the street and I met a French guy who is half Indian who was really interesting and talked to him for a long time. Was out until 5, feeling it today. I should clean my apartment but I keep doing other things instead of it, or pack for the trip. That will take about 3 minutes. Soon we will go to our favorite western food place, Hello Pizza, and eat delicious calzones. It is a good day, China.
More soon on Thailand… ahhh!
Love you all,
Coco
ha ha ! you are lazy girl! you hate cleaning room .
hope you find your target soon !