http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/AwestruckAngel/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from AwestruckAngel en-us Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:46:43 +0000 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:46:43 +0000 A long time ago I had a lot of friends. You always have the ones that stand out here and there and you go around with sayings like ldquo1 good friend is better than 10 bad onesrdquo which of course is a quote inspired by Samuel Johnston ldquoTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends but in there worth and choicerdquo. But in the end back then itrsquos just all about soun http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Zhejiang/Hangzhou/blog-408540.html So for those of you who donrsquot know and Irsquom guessing most a laowai is the word used for foreigner. Really makes you feel ostracized in a way rather than saying ldquoamericanrdquo or ldquojapaneserdquo like we do in America they just call you ldquolaowairdquo. However in China there is a power to being a laowai in many ways and truthfully I find it quite hilarious.Sta http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Zhejiang/Hangzhou/blog-370992.html I always say ldquoLife follow its path. We follow lifersquosrdquo. Even when that path is quite winedy and were not sure where wersquore going to end up. Itrsquos nice at the end of the day to find some purpose in the reason for the madness.As you know from my previous blog entry I didnrsquot quite make things on time. I stood at a friendrsquos house in SanFrancisco that night. The http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-366927.html Well my phone goes off at 230AM after sleeping for 45 minutes just to catch a quick nap before my flight. I do the typical ldquo5 more minutesrdquo and turn the alarm off also thinking to myself that my grandmother was downstairs making coffee she was just downstairs an hour ago asking me for information about China which might I add I donrsquot even think it was about China since I had http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/blog-366848.html