welcome to your new life
I have arrived in China! Holy Crap! I am currently enjoying a lovely YanJing brewsky in my lovely internet cafe in an International Youth Hostel that Xiao Wu found for me. [For those not that are not in the know, Xiao Wu was our driver when I lived here in high school. IBMers were not allowed to drive. We have since become good friends and his daughter is my age].
The Wu family picked me up at the airport and so far it is looking similar. We passed the Nelson residence 1996-1998, Legend Gardens Villas, where the closets were not wide enough for my father suits...
It smells the same here. They still havent got a good handle on that crazy English language. In the airport bathroom the sign above the automatic faucets read "automatic water. unnecessary touching." Maybe the unnecesary touching was in reference to a banned activity in the bathroom. Who knows.
Wu has a new car, an American mini van. Ha! On the way home we passed an accident that looked like it had happened a while ago but they still had not retrieved a dead comrade from the road side. We drove by his dead body, covered by a makeshift tarp, as if it were just broken glass. The Wu family commented on it briefly.
I am staying very near the Wu's house, so they can take good care of me, and under the lights of Big Blue, yes I can see the IBM on the building next to me from the hostel. Right near the bar street too, where I had a few Corona's during my later high school years. 7-11 has moved to China, thank God I wont be without that convenience. Wu Xia [daughter of Wu] says she eats lunch there almost daily.
Well that's it for now. Sorry if its somewhat disjunctive, who knows what time zone I am on. Please email me. Now is the time. It's not difficult, just a press of a button and you can tell me your own personal thoughts....
Maybe I'll get a job tommorow. Well I'll definitly get a cell phone and some yummy Chinese food- Wu's wife Yangling is cooking!
The Wu family picked me up at the airport and so far it is looking similar. We passed the Nelson residence 1996-1998, Legend Gardens Villas, where the closets were not wide enough for my father suits...
It smells the same here. They still havent got a good handle on that crazy English language. In the airport bathroom the sign above the automatic faucets read "automatic water. unnecessary touching." Maybe the unnecesary touching was in reference to a banned activity in the bathroom. Who knows.
Wu has a new car, an American mini van. Ha! On the way home we passed an accident that looked like it had happened a while ago but they still had not retrieved a dead comrade from the road side. We drove by his dead body, covered by a makeshift tarp, as if it were just broken glass. The Wu family commented on it briefly.
I am staying very near the Wu's house, so they can take good care of me, and under the lights of Big Blue, yes I can see the IBM on the building next to me from the hostel. Right near the bar street too, where I had a few Corona's during my later high school years. 7-11 has moved to China, thank God I wont be without that convenience. Wu Xia [daughter of Wu] says she eats lunch there almost daily.
Well that's it for now. Sorry if its somewhat disjunctive, who knows what time zone I am on. Please email me. Now is the time. It's not difficult, just a press of a button and you can tell me your own personal thoughts....
Maybe I'll get a job tommorow. Well I'll definitly get a cell phone and some yummy Chinese food- Wu's wife Yangling is cooking!
posted by Claire at 10:57 AM
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