Thursday, July 12, 2007

China

I had an amazing time and did some amazing things, so here's a few of them . These will be really basic so if you want a deeper explination, you'll have to ask me personally.

Some incredible things I got to do:
-Make new Chinese friends and get closer to my other friends.
-Go to China and Japan (twice, once for 2 hours and once for 5) on the same trip
-Go to the great wall
-Camp on the great wall
-Brush my teeth on the great wall
-Wake up and see the sunrise on the great wall.
-Throw up off the great wall.
-Go to Bejing
-Learn how to play "Murder In The Dark"
-Eat Bejing duck and hot pot.
-Go to Tannomen Square and the Forbidden City
-I wore my "I'm a legend in Japan" shirt in Japan.

Some things I learned:
-Chinese count there money differently.
-Seeing two guys or girls holding hands is just a friendship thing in China.
-Never tell any smart, determined, Chinese high school students that you know anything about Harvard University.
-Never hire a Chinese bus driver over the age of 40.
-If so, they will follow you EVERYWHERE, eat with you, and tell you that you are eating wrong.
-Never tell any Chinese business men that you like business or know anything about it unless you are God or Josh Young.
-Yes, squatty pottys are the only option.
-We joke about it, but the Chinese really are good at ping-pong.
-Never eat an "American Breakfast" on a Japanese Airlines.
-Never eat anything on an American Airlines.
-In a Chinese market, never even pretend to be interested in anything.
-There are not a billion people in China. There are a billion people in every small village in China.
-Never try to explain the NBDL to a beginning English student.
-Pig lungs are actually very tasty.
-Being in a small town there, Starbucks sounds amazing by the end of the week.
-Never try to order with organic milk at Starbucks in China.
-Never try to order at Starbucks in China.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot but this is all I can remeber right now.