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Posts From: China/Japan 2002

…..I have blue hair! it:s sooo cool! but we:ll get to that in a bit. as for now, i:m at the home of Reiko and Hiroshi, my Japanese host family for week. after a 2-hr flight to Fukuoka from Shanghai and a 3-hr train ride, we arrived in Nagasaki. ok, i:m going to abandon any caps, coz the Japanese keyboard is just weird and things are in different places (such …continue reading

Goodday to mah homies! Word. I’m wasting time for one last email from China when I should be working on my paper which is due before we leave the country, which is tomorrow morning! We load the bus at 945am and head for Hongqiao Int’l. Airport to fly to Fukuoka, Japan (1.5-hr. flight). I can’t believe that I’m leaving China in just over 12 hours! I feel like I have …continue reading

Yes, I got sick, but have no fear. I’m all better. 16 of us went to a club on Sat. night. This happened to be a FREE club (their $$ is in the drinks), and it was really awesome. When we got in a cab to go back to E.C.N.U. I was feeling a bit sick in the stomach. The next morning, I woke up and felt like I was …continue reading

Hello from a smoky internet cafe in Shanghai. Gahhh, I can’t stand it! The overnight train to Nanjing the other night wasn’t bad at all. I was dead tired, so I slipped in my new Na Ying CD (Chinese) and fell asleep soon after. There were 6 beds in each space, 3 on each side and above each other. The train wasn’t a nice amtrak at all but it worked, …continue reading

Hello people! I’m here at the mall cafe yet again. Yesterday, we headed for Tiananmen Square at 830am in our bus. We were dropped off and luckily Mao Tsetong’s Mausoleum was open so we got in line. We were told to be solemn, and then there was a stand where people could buy bouquets to place in front of Mao’s statue. The place looked like the Lincoln Memorial; pillars, and …continue reading