Well itchy. Well itchy. Well itchy. I haven't done shite for updating my blogs. No excuses really. Well I have been busy since I started working in September but I had 2 months in Singapore to catch up but I was lazy. Just a quick update of now. I am in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China teaching English at English First Training Centre. The city is crap but I love the friends I've made and the most my students are great. Anyway. So here I go again. I hope I can remember all the good shit. These upcoming blogs will probably be a [View Full Entry]

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June 7 - 9 Morning on the train I was trying to figure out how far the bus station from the train station to catch a bus to Kaili. A girl was sitting across from me and I asked her if she knew which bus to take to Kaili. Now I can't remember if I asked in horrible chinese or in english. Probably in english but I would like to think I used chinese:) She told me she was goign to Kaili and that I could come with her. Sweet deal! She introduced herself as Rabbit. She was visiting friends [View Full Entry]

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June 2 - 6 While Jillian and I waited for our backpacks, Rob went to the guy holding a name card with his name on it. It was our taxi to Mix GH. I prayed my backpack made it and my bad luck with "delayed" luggage didn't follow me across the world to Asia. With backpacks in hand we followed our driver to the taxi. For 2 o'clock in the morning this dude was sure chipper. He had to get gas at one point and asked us to get out of the van. Skeptisism kicking in, we all thought that [View Full Entry]

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LIJIANG - May 29 I don't understand how smoking can be permitted on buses. Well really it's not cause there is a no smoking sign but do the chinese listen?...of course not. So of course I got the combo of smoker and hoarker sitting beside me, dumping his ashes and spitting his hoarks in the aisle. Disgusting. He also had a hard time picking something out of his nose. Now I don't know if it was snot or just some nose hair but holy mother was that ever annoying. I had to look away and out the window cause it [View Full Entry]

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Sorry for the delay in blog updating. I will have some time now since I am in Singapore. Yayaya I know really not much to do in here but I am anxious just to visit with friends again and chillax, maybe sleep in, no worries about having to catch a bus or train, no dealing with smokers in buses or hoarking everywhere, no pushy sellers "lady you buy something!", ahhh....nice. May 26 - 28 Well the bus ride was good up until we stopped and everybody got off at Xiaguan (Dali City). We made sure when buying the bus ticket [View Full Entry]

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Last Day in Ha Noi May 22 The last night in Ha Noi was not so good cause my iriver (music player) busted and I couldn't fix it. That has to be fixed since I will be travelling long ass distances in China on train or bus. Need to drown out the hoarkers! Totally sux. I was catching the overnight train (9:55pm) so I had all day to do nothing once again. Well actually I went to pickup my china visa in the morning, which thankfully was ready. But the only thing that I didn't think about was the fact [View Full Entry]

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May 25 - 26 The Chinese border was not at all what I thought it was going to be. Here I thought it would be super tight security with lots of questions and hassle but it wasn't all at. Us, the only foreigners got a separate line and hardly any questions. I just got asked if I was travelling with the other two or alone and that was pretty much it. Put my bags on the security x-ray thingy, didn't even walk through a metal detector and that was it. We walked out onto the streets of the Hekou and [View Full Entry]

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HA NOI - May 13 Well the introduction to Ha Noi was shit. As soon as we stepped off the bus we were scammed....."free taxi." A guy was claiming free taxi to anywhere we wanted to be dropped off since the bus cannot go into the city. We (Anna, Beth, Hannibal (chilean), and I) thought it was a little sketchy cause nothing in this country is free but we took it anyway. Well ya, we didn't get dropped where we wanted but in front of a guesthouse where there just happened some dude waiting for us. The trunk open, I [View Full Entry]

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Hue & Dong Ha - May 11 - 12 Only stayed one night in Hue and didn't do or see much. This was just a stopover for the tour to the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) which we booked for the next day. Anna (german chick) and I decided to take the overnight bus to Hanoi instead of the train, which is what Merika and Sebastien were doing. We saved ourselves time and money by doing the bus. The DMZ tour was okay. The guide was good. She was very knowledgeable and spoke good english. I just didn't think we would be [View Full Entry]

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May 7 - 10 I was pretty damn lazy and really didn't want to go in search of the guesthouses I marked in the LP (Lonely Planet). There was one place across from the cafe where we were chillin'. I checked it out and it was okay for $7/night but it was on a busy street. While Jody went in search of a place nearby, Tian and I just relaxed. She said that it was fine by her if we were to share. That was super cool but I totally didn't want to drag them down to backpacker style since [View Full Entry]

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