so i love this entry (maybe i'm a little narcissistic).
and i love all the pictures. i stole that one for my facebook when i was using your computer ... it was just there on the screen beckoning me to use it! i had a flippin' blast at the opera! it was all recitative, but the few aries that were in it blew me away!
the walk around Charleston was devine, and being the coffee snob that i am the pit stop into cafe cafe was a good story for later.
thanks sis. you are the ab-so-lute best! i cannot thank you enough!
crazy trisha...i had no idea you were staying for good. I feel like amy and i should have a conference call with you!
i loved your blogs last year....keep writing
sounds like my life! or like it was back when. remember you are welcome to come up here and enjoy the mtns. enjoy this time of your life, you never know what is around the corner! maybe......a new adventure.
lazy days are sweet if not too hot yeah, it's good to catch up with old friends. never let a friend go trisha. good ones are hard to find and keep. les and i treasure each and every friend we have. i know the heat is awful. much nicer up here, come visit anytime. love ya, cheryl
sleeping hard on the springhill sofa I'm looking at all these adorable faces and understanding how hard it would be to leave them. I'm also looking at you sleeping off jet lag and am so glad I get to share some weeks with you. When I hear your stories and how you have lived for these past 11 months, I realize how much stronger you are than I could ever be. How wonderful to be flexible enough to enjoy the whole world. So happy to have you safely home. Thank all your friends for me for all their encouragement to you as you made your way in China. They will never know how much it meant to me to know that they were behind you all the way.
heeeelllooo trisha. hmmm. i wonder what your chinese name is. well, i wanted to thank you (very late) for the graduation e-card. i know, it's crazy that i'm done. i would probably only have one leg if not for your urging freshman year to visit the doc about my little spider bite. so ...my left leg says, "THANK YOU"!!!! i can't believe how soon you will be home...wow. my computer has been a piece o crap, so i havne't been able to read your blogs. :( i'm actually in Gambrell right now! HAHA. love you.
Best reading I've done in ages! I've kept up a steady giggle all the way through! I didn't think it would ever end and I'm glad it didn't. I needed that! Love you and welcome home soon. Cheryl
I can't help it Sorry, Trisha, but you got me going!
You've been in China too long if: You pass a public bathroom and your nose doesn't notice.
You walk in the middle of the street cuz cars always park on the sidewalks.
You think of car alarms as background music.
It makes more sense to pay 4 mao ($.05) to ride a bus for 1.5 hrs than to pay 3 kuai ($.39) to ride the subway for 15 min.
You think the subway's deserted if there's a place to sit down.
You say a genuine "Thank you" if someone tells you you're getting fat.
You stare at a woman who's smoking, but ignore one dressed in her nightgown, brushing her teeth on the sidewalk.
You like to buy ponytail holders with glittery, fluffy designs. And you don't worry they won't match your Hello Kitty shirt, your Mickey Mouse shorts and your Pooh Bear bag; you know your 4-inch heels will pull them all together.
Can't believe you're leaving! Wow! You've had so many blogs about so many fascinating things! I really do look forward to your new additions, and it kinda seems sad that this is coming to a close. But then I remember that your USA blogs were really interesting as well. But now you can't ever stop doing this--they're too much fun for all of us to read!
Pushy beggars Pushy sales people are annoying. I usually just leave the store; I like to look around and even touch things. But under their watchful gaze, if I look at something for more than 1.5 seconds, they try hard to pin down a sale. But worse are the subway beggars who put the money dish right under your nose. I almost wish people wouldn't have told me those maimed and blind people are under the control of begging rings who take all that money. And they get lots of money cuz you can't help but feel sorry for them. It's easier for me to not give money to the little kids, cuz you can usually see a greedy adult lurking in the background. But mainly I just hate to reinforce that extremely agressive begging by little kids. I've tried to give them food, but they won't take it.
I "Wonder" It always occurs to me whenever I see some kind of "Meat on a stick" that I don't know what the meat is. As a matter of fact, it never quite tastes like any other meat that I can place. Hmm. I guess ignorance is bliss. If you know what the meat is though, please let me know. (Unless you think it would be better to keep me in the dark.)
Rebecca
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so i love this entry (maybe i'm a little narcissistic). and i love all the pictures. i stole that one for my facebook when i was using your computer ... it was just there on the screen beckoning me to use it! i had a flippin' blast at the opera! it was all recitative, but the few aries that were in it blew me away! the walk around Charleston was devine, and being the coffee snob that i am the pit stop into cafe cafe was a good story for later. thanks sis. you are the ab-so-lute best! i cannot thank you enough!