Like My Brother Said

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I could not understand why my brother - who traveled through Asia for a year - kept complaining about China, yet he kept going back. Over and over again. He finally explained it when he said that China was like A Gold Nugget wrapped in a Ball of Shit. This place is strange, I think... so much of you wants to get the HELL out! and yet, you are strangely drawn back again and again. I get it now.

First of all, there is NO chocolate. I mean NONE. literally. zip. notta. NONE.

Getting over that... Everything is so fake here! Fake logos (like "Nkie" sandals with a check mark which you don't realize it's not really "Nike" until you buy them, or the "N" is backwards, etc).
Oh, goodness... and the young people are desperate to learn English, they line up in the streets asking for your email address so that they can be your pen pal, but the older generation, if they have not learned English are not even interested in trying to figure out what you are saying.

Women NEVER show their midriff, but men will constantly be lifting up their shirts to show their pregnant bellies. WOW.

So there is this week long holiday: GOLDEN WEEK. October 1-7th
It is the celebration of the end of the cultural revolution where anyone who can will travel around China, so I got the heck outta there! Heading to Vietnam!
Later Gators!



Books I recommend:
Water for Elephants
Hunting Unicorns By Bella Pollen

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Photos

In Yangshuo
Not everyone has cranes and such. If you want it done, you do it yourself.

chickens
only pork. Lots of pork.

caught a fish
It's lunch time!

Mooooo
Filet Mignon?

Farmers
what are they doing?

Comments

[Mat]

Mean Comments
That photo titled "did he leave his truck at home" is wrong on many levels...and very funny. The quality of the air is so bad, even in the rural areas, as is visible from your photos. It looks like so much fun, though, all of those chickens and cows. Great stuff over there in China. By the way, when you say "notta" in English, it's really referring to our second most populous American language--Spanish, and the word is theirs. You ought to pay tribute by spelling it correctly: nada. It also means he swims, in case you want to refer to those Chinese men bathing in the river.

[Shay]

I see...
your midriff!!! ooooh!!!! You're lucky the Chinese government didn't deport your fine ass into a sex-slave group! Clearly you are too ninja for them!! Good work agent.

[Jessica Ahmed]

So....what was that yellow stuff???
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