Blogs from Xiamen, Fujian, China, Asia - page 8

The sun has made an appearance! Hallelujah! You can't see it, but trust me, I AM doing a happy dance! LOL Also, it helps that I just spent 45 minutes skyping with Aiden and Harley and have an update on with what they have been up to. I am lying on my bed, so happy to have internet here in the apartment now, and thinking about how it is so interesting that I have the temperature on my room air conditioning set to 25 degrees celsius and am feeling that this is cool. !!! Did you just fall over? Oh, sorry. LOL, Yes, this is me...what a shocker, eh? Yup, this feels cool. I actually sleep with it about 23 Celsius and stay under my quilt all night long feeling good. No, really! I can hardly ... read more

The rain is steady this morning, and at times, absolutely pouring onto the streets. When I rose, very early this morning, after having crashed heavily and slept for 9 straight hours, one of the first sounds that greeted me was that of someone's car alarm! LOL There were several that blasted into the early morning. That and the rain, and me at my computer, trying to straighten out the mess the upload made of the pictures.....lol, oh well. What else have I got to do? I gotta say, I am so hungry, and there's not a pizza joint in sight, or even a McDonalds. OMG, I would even eat there. I was a bit afraid to go wandering in the dark last night, and so tired I opted for blogging and bed. And I may go ... read more

We had a very serendipitous visit to this unique port in Southern China. Our good friends, John and Jeannie from Pebble Beach have their sailboat in Turkey and have been cruising the Turquoise Coast for a number of years. Now John is thinking of moving his boat to Asia and has been looking into the possibility of basing it in Xiamen. He asked us to check out the area from a sail boater’s point of view. John gave us his contact in Xiamen and after numerous emails, we arranged to spend the day with Hugh. Hugh Morrow is a mid-westerner from LeMars, Iowa who has made a name for himself in the sailing world. Three years ago he crewed aboard a 54’ Chinese junk across the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco—without an engine! This 15,000 mile ... read more

Så der 1 uge tilbage til jeg rejser hjem! Hej alle sammen derhjemme. Så er der kun 1 uge tilbage i Kina, og denne uge står i familie hyggens tegn, da Christian - Tanias lillebror - er landet på ferie hernede (: Super dejligt at være samlet alle sammen, har vi ikke været siden studenterugen. I dag er Christian og Jan ude og spille golf sammen og få lidt far-søn tid. Julie er sammen med en veninde og Tania er pt. på noget udlændinge kom-sammen som jeg valgte at ikke tage med til, da jeg ikke rigtig kan nå at lære nogen at kende, da jeg snart tager hjem :p Så lige nu er jeg alene hjemme, og slapper bare af. Pigerne kommer senere og ser project catwalk med mig (: Hvad har jeg lavet? ... read more

A day is skipped when traveling to the Far East from the Far West, like from California to China. A redeye flight from Frisco International. Final destination is Xiamen, a small coastal city in the Fujian Province in the southeastern part of China. I have never been there. I have never been to China, period. Writing the word period at the end of a sentence may seem a tad bit redundant and moronic, but it's emphatic, and empathic. Emphasis and empathy are important in the written arts, almost as important as digression. Belaboration is also important as well. I just made that word up, belaboration. It doesn't exist in any dictionary of the English language. Making up words, in other words wordplay and words to that effect, is essential in a civilized and sophisticated society such ... read more