Blogs from Dalian, Dongbei, China, Asia - page 14

Never know which side of the fencepost my relationship with Camillo will land on. The two sides are the "we're dating" and "we're really close friends" sides. Who knows what will end up happening. I think from my end of things they don't look too promising on the "we're dating" side but that's okay. Every day we become closer and closer and every day we understand each other a little bit more (although sometimes it seems like we're backtracking). Last night was a real ... interesting night. I went over to the Salon and neither Camillo nor his brother were there (nor were any customers). I just sat and started reading Harry Potter for a little bit and then Camillo came in and asked me if I was hungry. I kinda stumbled around the issue until ... read more

Two nights ago Camillo came home from Shenyang. I was very glad to see him. It was Wednesday so I had to work the majority of the day but when I was finished I called to ask Eason if he wanted me to come over and we had a little debate "you tell me whether to come" "no, you come if you want" "you tell me" etc. I finally decided to go. That night L Salon was decorating itself for Christmas. I walked in and Kast was standing on a ladder in the back fixing what looked like a huge silver ring (I'm still not sure what it's supposed to be). Some of the other boys including Camillo were standing on chairs in the front fixing christmas wreaths and decorations over the light fixtures. It was ... read more

Thursday night I had a pretty .... interesting night. It's a bit personal but basically Craig told Camillo something that made him come on to me much stronger than I'd ever wanted him to. It was really an uncomfortable night and took me a long time that night to get to sleep. Although the night made me really feel like crap during the day on Friday I ended up having a really kick arse night on Friday night. Did my usual tutoring of Will and Sally during the day and then went over to HaoSha to work out. One of the workers at the gym told me that my coach had said I was getting in good shape so I was really thrilled about that. Went over to the Salon as usual and Camillo was playing ... read more

I was thinking to myself this morning that learning a language is like climbing up a really steep mountain. It takes you a long time to get to the top and every now and then you feel like you aren't climbing at all. Sometimes there are cliffs or points when you feel like you're going down the mountain instead of up and other times you feel like you're climbing really fast when in fact you're going no where. I've never really climbed a super steep mountain so I'm not sure how well that analogy works but that's what I feel like it is in my head. We had our usual "work your arse off" weekend. Saturday night I went out to dinner with Cat, Craig, Tony and his little sister. We went out for hot pot ... read more

So I finally truthfully figured out why I can't understand the Guan Dong slang as much as I can Dalian slang. The true reason is because Guan Dong slang is a slang of Cantonese, not a slang of Mandarin (like Dalian slang is). Therefore, like Merry said even people from around here can't understand the Guan Dong slang very much (because it's a slang of an entirely different language). Not really too much else to write about. Yesterday we had class as usual, all day long. It's still a bit tiring to have seven hours of class in a row. Afterwards I went with Merry over to her place and had dinner next to her dorm. She knows the owner of a little noodle place. It's not exactly an American version of sanitary but there are ... read more