Ok, so I left at 8:30 am on Tuesday and arrived in China at 10 pm on Wednesday b/c of the time change situation and since I flew west across the pacific, I never had any darkness even though a whole day went by since we were basically outrunning the spin of the earth. I guess I didn't really fly but rode in an airplane, for as we sky divers say: "if riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat must be swimming...get out of the vehicle and enjoy the thrill!" Anyway...so I get picked up in the airport by a couple of Chinese teachers, but I am deathly tired so that's all a blurr and they drop me off at my apartment, but they can't let me inside the apartment until this apartment worker arrives to check the meter for the water and electricity and walk through the apartment with me and see what's broken, at this point it's after local midnight time and I am about to fall over. So they finally all leave and when I wake up about 5 hours later when the sun rises and the jet lag kicks in, I get a good look at the place. Here's what I found:
Ok, so the interesting things to note here are that the shower is not separate from the toilet at all. Matter of fact, I could even be sitting on the toilet and be showering if I wanted to be particularly efficient. Hmm, now that I think about it, that would be like having an awesome bidet... It is annoying though b/c now I can't really pee in the shower anymore b/c I realize that all of the golden flow will be all over the floor...anyways...Once I took a shower, the whole bathroom including the toilet and sink was completely splattered with water which took about 4 hours to dry, there is a drain in the middle of the floor and there are big bright heat lamps on the ceiling but it still takes about 4 hours.
Speaking of lamps, take a look at my bed, yes those are blue mood lights built into the bed, and the light switch for the bedroom has options to be yellow-normal light, or blue-trippy mood light, or combined yellow and blue really weird light. But I think I got bruises from jumping on the bed the first time b/c it's about as hard as the box spring without the mattress in the U.S., I mean really, they could use this bed for those commercials that show that the red wine won't spill even if she jumps up and down, except that you cannot make any indentation into this bed unlike the Tempur-Pedic, well at least that's excellent for your back, my mom sleeps directly on the floor for the back benefits.
Here are a few random pics showing the views inside and out of my China apartment:
Tomorrow, I will post about my first shopping experience and my apparent Pied Piper like effect on everyone that sees me.
This is my blog. I will be chronicling my travels through China over the next year for my friends and anyone else that stumbles upon this blog. I will also periodically post my thoughts about current events, especially when such events pertain to myself, China, freedom, or "computer cards". Feel free to post comments but do be discreet in referring to yours truly. May you always drink deep...Aquafraternally yours.
8/29/2008 07:55:00 PM
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JET LAG!!! I bet that is fun. Anyway i have heard about the bathroom situation and i think ive seen them smaller nick, be glad you have that much space. I think ive seen porn of asian women taking a bath with that same set-up and all they have is like a bowl with water in it. that would suck IMO. Anyway the view looks cool man. How big is the whole town, would you say, the size of Cordova Highschool? lol. Have fun shopping, maybe you should eye the hottest asian you see and buy her something nice for the hell of it. see what happens, maybe you could work a bj out of a pair of flip flops, i dunno. anyway have fun and keep in touch.
Good luck Sweetie. Hope all goes well for you. When do you start your job?
Waiting on the next update of "Your Great Adventure". Did you just arrive at your apartment and drop off the face of the earth or what? smile
Sorry for not posting for a while, my internet went down for 4 days and just got it working late last night. So I will post more stuff later today.
The whole town is 4 million people and is very big. It takes about 45 minutes by bus to get to downtown from my college in the suburbs. A bit misplaced language there regarding the flip flops, my impression is that it is usually quite different with these girls, most Asian girls are very reserved and want to feel a connection prior to doing anything physical. I will post further observations about this soon.
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