LindsayT

June 16-18, 2007 Found my way from the Guangzhou train station to the shuttle bus that takes you to Macau. It was suppose to be at this big hotel but because of renovations they moved it across the street at some exhibition place. I had trouble finding where to buy the tickets cause it was tucked away in the parking lot. The ride was about 1h30mins if I remember correctly. Got off at customs and while waiting in line met this Mexican dude who was visiting a friend. We took a taxi together into town. He was pretty cool, works for a in communication and PR for Jaricho, a Mexican production of traditional dances and music (http://www.jarocho.net/). The taxi dropped off at the Grand Lisboa that was being built. We parted ways when I had to ... read more

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 lot shorter than the "in the moment" ones since because of time that has gone by. Boh well. Maybe that is good for you if you were quite bored with them. Hehehe. Oh well. Lets ... read more

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 he would speed off with our bags. Safely back in the van, I felt a little bad about thinking such thoughts of what seemed like a decent man. At Mix we signed in, paid a ... read more

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 that we pointed out Dali (Old city) in the China book with characters and all. Sheat! It was only 18 km to the Old City Dali but we had to figure out how to get ... read more

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 that it was activated the date of issue (17 May), so I have already wasted time not being in China. Doh. I went to the Ho Chi Minh masoleum and the museum after visa pickup. ... read more