Paris, Tokyo, London, Ganzhou...

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Pictures of Ganzhou. I know the apartment pictures aren't very exciting, but I wanted to put them up to help entice the handful of you who are thinking about visiting...

20 things to do in Ganzhou:

1. Ride bumper cars and go on the "high-fly rat" roller coaster.
2.Go tea tasting.
3.See live music and dancing at the champs elysees club.
4.Have snakewine and endangered Tibetan antelope ribs.
5.Get a t-shirt made with whatever you want on it.
6.Go to a 9th century Pagoda and throw paper airplanes off the top.
7.Take motorbikes to the village across the river and visit old hillside graves.
8.Get a massage from a blind person.
9. Eat Dog.
10.Go to the antique district and buy posters from the cultural revolution era.
11.Go to the hip hop store and drink with the owner.
12.Rent paddleboats.
13.Get tattoos.
14. Go to the "dark circle of rock forest" music store and sing and play electric guitar, drums, and bass, in front of a crowd of onlookers.
15.Go to a restaurant in a Ching dynasty-era buidling.
16. Visit Buddhist monastary.
17.Eat Muslim food and watch them make noodles by hand.
18.Smoke cigarettes with Chinese people.
19.Eat a kitten (seriously).
20.Play basketball with college students.



will write more soon.

Love,

Michael

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Photos

Bastketball court where I hustle fools
The basketball court at the University where I hustle fools (actually most of them are better than me...)

Ganzhou streets
As seen from fake KFC...

Hot Dog Lady
Chinese people love their hot dogs.

Coffee Table
Chris and Katie's coffee table.

Don Imus and Stevo
Bet you'd never guess that Stevo had just said the words "Don Imus."
This is a painting that Chris is working on in the background.

Bathing Complex
The hallway leading to my "bathing complex," and separate toilet/washermachine room and then another room with shower that looks like a time machine..everytime I step out of it I have to check myself in the mirror to make sure I haven't turned into abraham lincoln.

My "Office" room
I will put a matress in here for anyone who is thinking about visiting...

View from my back porch...
To be honest, it's not usually this sunny

Guangzhou Mosque
This is supposedly the oldest mosque in China, built just after the Muhammad's death.

Old and New
Sign outside the mosque...

BBQ Whole Camel
I saw this poster on the wall of the Muslim restaurant I was eating in outside the Mosque. Apparently a Uygher (people from the remote western part of China) specialty is whole camel...pass the ranch dressing, please.

I think that's a dog hanging...
Just outside the Muslim Uygher restaurant...pretty sure that's a dog hanging by the police officer....
love you archie