Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Today we woke up early, like really early. We were going to a wholesale marketplace thing, to help our guide get clothes for the orphanages with the donated money. At first she just choses the clothes she wanted and told the salesperson how many of each thing she wanted. Then she got all 120 packs of baby clothes and put them in a giant, canvas, shopping bag, and the 60 pairs of shoes in anothes bag. The one with the clothes was extremely heavy. I was stuck with that one for the beggining and end of the walk/bus ride to the post office. When we finally got to the post office it was just me, our guide, and another guy. I set the bag down on the floor and looked at my hand, it was all red with one white strip down one side. It hurt really bad. The post office was insane, we took all the clothes and shoes and put them into two boxes, then the guide told me to take one over to the table so she could write something on it. Next she told me to go help the other guy tape and close the other box. Finally she said, "go, take it to that lady over there!" I be like "Dude... there's 4 ladys over there..." So she shoves me toward the lady she meant and gave me 100 yuan. Im like, ok... i have a box, a paper, Money! and no idea what to do. So the lady takes the paper stamps it, takes something from the inside that i didn't even know the paper, or now envelope had, stamps that and puts a sticker on the box. By now my vision is blurry, i dont know what to do... eventually i get my senses back and realize, THE LADY TOOK MY MONEY!!! But i be like you know what, you can keep that if you show me the exit! Ya... but she finally made change for the money she TOOK, and the boxes were on their way to God knows where, and we were off to the hotel again!
Monday, February 26, 2007
We got her yesterday
Ok maan, like we got her, and now its like 6 not 5, oh well. We are getting so stared at when we walk around its like... embarassing. Ya ok... i got to give her her first bottle, pretty spiffy, eh? Ya she pounded that thang as if it were koolade (KOOLADE!) thats an inside joke , no one who reads this except James should know what that means, unless there are some people reading this that i dont know about, if so like comment the stupid blog, im doin it for u! I feel kinda stupid, i dont even know if thats how u spell koolade. I was pretty stoked, cause i only got to hold her once at the adoption place but i got to give her her first bottle, it was the dankness. ( James ) i threw that in there for you. Word, there's another one, man... you see how good i am!?! Just Kidding.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Punches
Hey James, could u please spare me of the punches, because my dad wouldnt even let me touch the computer until the day i put up my first post which was in like the second city, and he didnt tell me about your comments about the punches, even though i bugged him to tell me stuff or let me post or at least look at either of our blogs every single day, it pissed me off. and i couldnt sneak into their room at night and use the computer because they locked the connecting door. Even if they didnt lock it, they only had internet in their room and they are light sleepers so the loudness of the computer would for sure wake them up. But iv posted every chance iv got, see? SEE?!?
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Ok, earlier i was in such a hurry that i forgot to start at the beginning of the trip so... from the beginning. Ok so after the last phonecall, i said my last goodbye to my grandparents, and then drove to my other grandparents. We ate dinner and hung out for a while before driving to the airport at about 1o:oo. We didn't even have to leave till 12;oo but we had to go thrugh customs and get our visas and passports checked, which sucked but ya, oh well. So we finally got into our plane and got comfortable. It was delayed for like an hour because another plane like had a nuclear bomb dropped on it and everyone was dying or something. Anyway it was pretty fun for like the takeoff, then it was boring. I watched that one movie where the guy like cant stop moving or he'll die or something like 5 times, then i watched Scool of Rock and What about Bob. It took like 15 of 16 hours for the sun to come up, but when it did it was Beautiful. There was allmost all the colors of the rainbow and a bright red sun. You had to be there, but by the time i got off that flight i swear airplane food was probably my biggest fear. Anyway, we are lucky because it is the Chinese new year so there is a buttload of fireworks everywhere, especially right this minute. My dad also has a friend whos friend lives in Bejing, where we were so my dad called him to ask if we could chill with him for a while and for directions to "The Tree," a pizza place suppozed to have the best pizza in Bejing. So we got directions, and on the way to the resturaunt a black dude politely nods at my dad so he nods back, not knowing what was going to happen next. The dude walks up to my dad and says
"need some stuff man?" my dad just as politely says,
"not right now" so we kept on truckin' going down alleys and back roads till we found the cozy little restraunt. The food wasnt bad, but it wasnt pizza from America, but you're in China; what are you going to do? Ok after we finished eating, walked back, i actally saw some Chinese graff which i was looking for but i think it was the black dudes or something, because it didn't look Chinese. We had to walk back by the black dudes again, so i guess he got the bright idea to ask me and my dad if we wanted some "stuff" but he said no again.(very predictable) But that little section totally reminded me of east LA or something. But when you see black people in China you kinda know they're up to something. Anyway, after that we got my mom, brother, and sister a cab back to the hotel. Me and my dad got a seperate cab, however, and whent to his friends friends house or apartment rather and went upstairs. He opened the door and we walked in, he offered us drinks, so i asked for a beer, and got a greenish blue brew. It tasted fine it was just funny lookin. They started talking about how they knew their friend. But after a while my dad asked him how an Americain guy winds up in Bejing with a Peruvian wife. I cant remember quite how he answered that but it led into his life story. This is the sick part, the guy has been almost everywhere except Africa, and he had a lot of adventures in the places he'd been. He spent the night in a pond hiding from the fuzz after being shot at trying to sneak into the Soviet Union. He spent a week with an insane man in Mexico, who was like 5o or 6o years old with 3 or 4 odd jobs, a 19 yr old girlfriend, and bullet holes in his door. One day while there the man hands him a gun, takes him on the roof, and tells him to shoot anyone that goes on the sidwalk. Im sure this would be scary but there was a car that no one recognized and they were afraid but in the end it was just a lost tourist. He did a lot of other stuff too but i don t want to bore you and i cant remember all of it. After that we went to our hotel and slept. So the next day after the stuff that i already told you about in the previous post, we saw the Great Wall. It was huge, so many steps! And every single one was uneven, i ran up some, but mostly staggered i was so tired. But once i got to the top, me and my brother ran All The Way Down. We were tripping on the uneven steps and almost falling and Dying, but not really cause im writing this. But of course the only time me and my brother need a bathroom, there isnt one, so we stopped, and we pissed off the Great Wall of China! That memory will stay with me the rest of my life. After that we saw some like pearl factories and jade and stuff but after dinner we saw an acrobat show. The show was awsome, but of corse "Frenchy" in front of me would not stop sucking on his girlfriends' face so i couldnt see some of it. But other than that, it was insane! There was two people in a dragon costume, making one dragon; then two dragons balanced on one ball! You had to be there but it was amazing, they also got something like 19 people onto one bycicle, that was pretty cool. The next day we flew to the city that we are at right now and saw the Terra-Cotta warriors. It wasnt the coolest but it was still fun. Tomorrow we are flying to Chonquing or something and the day after that we're getting our sister! Yea... ok basically be thankful for your balls, if you want to drink, come to China, and if you miss your friends after short periods of time, dont come to China. Thank you and goodnight or morning or whatever it is in America
Taylor
"need some stuff man?" my dad just as politely says,
"not right now" so we kept on truckin' going down alleys and back roads till we found the cozy little restraunt. The food wasnt bad, but it wasnt pizza from America, but you're in China; what are you going to do? Ok after we finished eating, walked back, i actally saw some Chinese graff which i was looking for but i think it was the black dudes or something, because it didn't look Chinese. We had to walk back by the black dudes again, so i guess he got the bright idea to ask me and my dad if we wanted some "stuff" but he said no again.(very predictable) But that little section totally reminded me of east LA or something. But when you see black people in China you kinda know they're up to something. Anyway, after that we got my mom, brother, and sister a cab back to the hotel. Me and my dad got a seperate cab, however, and whent to his friends friends house or apartment rather and went upstairs. He opened the door and we walked in, he offered us drinks, so i asked for a beer, and got a greenish blue brew. It tasted fine it was just funny lookin. They started talking about how they knew their friend. But after a while my dad asked him how an Americain guy winds up in Bejing with a Peruvian wife. I cant remember quite how he answered that but it led into his life story. This is the sick part, the guy has been almost everywhere except Africa, and he had a lot of adventures in the places he'd been. He spent the night in a pond hiding from the fuzz after being shot at trying to sneak into the Soviet Union. He spent a week with an insane man in Mexico, who was like 5o or 6o years old with 3 or 4 odd jobs, a 19 yr old girlfriend, and bullet holes in his door. One day while there the man hands him a gun, takes him on the roof, and tells him to shoot anyone that goes on the sidwalk. Im sure this would be scary but there was a car that no one recognized and they were afraid but in the end it was just a lost tourist. He did a lot of other stuff too but i don t want to bore you and i cant remember all of it. After that we went to our hotel and slept. So the next day after the stuff that i already told you about in the previous post, we saw the Great Wall. It was huge, so many steps! And every single one was uneven, i ran up some, but mostly staggered i was so tired. But once i got to the top, me and my brother ran All The Way Down. We were tripping on the uneven steps and almost falling and Dying, but not really cause im writing this. But of course the only time me and my brother need a bathroom, there isnt one, so we stopped, and we pissed off the Great Wall of China! That memory will stay with me the rest of my life. After that we saw some like pearl factories and jade and stuff but after dinner we saw an acrobat show. The show was awsome, but of corse "Frenchy" in front of me would not stop sucking on his girlfriends' face so i couldnt see some of it. But other than that, it was insane! There was two people in a dragon costume, making one dragon; then two dragons balanced on one ball! You had to be there but it was amazing, they also got something like 19 people onto one bycicle, that was pretty cool. The next day we flew to the city that we are at right now and saw the Terra-Cotta warriors. It wasnt the coolest but it was still fun. Tomorrow we are flying to Chonquing or something and the day after that we're getting our sister! Yea... ok basically be thankful for your balls, if you want to drink, come to China, and if you miss your friends after short periods of time, dont come to China. Thank you and goodnight or morning or whatever it is in America
Taylor
Friday, February 23, 2007
New Post
Hey sorry i havent been able to post anything for a while. My dad has been posting every chance he got when he got the internet to work, and he made us late for almost everything. Well... China, it is pretty sick, i have had beer with every meal accept breakfast since we got here. No drinking age is awsome. We first saw Tiennamen Square and the Forbidden City. The forbidden city was HUGE! it was like really big. It was pretty interesting, a lot of history, i found a lot of stuff i didn't know before. Like the fact that it took something like 3oo years to build, I also learned some stuff i didn't want to know like the fact that everyone that worked in the Forbidden City was a unic, the emporrer was the only dude allowed to have balls! Thats so messed up, and whats even wierder was the fact that the people i think CHOSE to work there. Who wants their balls cut off!?! Plus with no pain killers, that would suck! I have to go for now but i will post later.
Taylor
Taylor
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