"And what tone is that in?"

"Yeah yeah but it's a five o' clock world when the whistle blows
and no one owns a piece of my time -
and there's a five o' clock me inside my clothes
thinkin' that the world looks fine, yeah"

The staring is increasing. I dunno if it's because they're finally looking at us and not keeping their heads down but today I got sneered at and Gavin got giggled at. It's totally cuz I'm a gangster prostitute. They say that when you wear a tank top they think you're a prostitute and I totally have that big ass gang sign on my back hahaha. Love it. I'm trying to upload pictures but this blog thing isn't liking them and it's driving me nuts. I was totally shutting down like "Meredith catatonic" today due to not getting enough sleep lately but after a two hour nap I'm feeling fresher and awake. I love how they told us not to "break off into cliques" and that's exactly what's been happening. It's a little frustrating but it was bound to happen. I like our group though - it's not as cliquey because we try to be/or already are friends with alot of other kids (especially thanks to Gavin because everyone remembers him for the random and outlandish things that he says - like the ballsac salad dream) I get along with most everybody, that's of course because they haven't met my angry side and it's only a matter of time haha.

Last night we went out to celebrate some birthdays and had some serious fun at this little dance club. They were spraying water with super soakers and they had this teeny kiddy pool on the dance area that Randy's lovingly dunked me in. I'm always the wet one, I mean seriously? I don't really mind because it's a nice break from the constant sweating but still? During the cab ride home we were shouting all kinds of things, some correct, some not so correct. We passed these not too cheery guys in a truck and I managed to tell him that he had a mental problem unintentionally, I'm awesome.

We're finding new things to laugh at every day - whether it's Big Willie Style not know how to tell a story or a SENTENCE at all, or J.J's (James Jones) random hilarity, or the chinese guy on the corner who tells all the girls he loves them. We also ate spicy spicy noodles at this little Muslim place this afternoon. It was so good but the peppers.....ahhh mouth = fire. We also got to watch the noodle guy at his work which you should google because chinese noodle making is fun as well to watch, as it is to eat!

Must get ready for the mock lesson so have to shorten it up, plus must eat dinner. I think I'm going to put pictures on facebook because this thing won't take them so if you don't have facebook, ask someone who is one there (half our family is anyways) and they should be able to show you because it's complicated.

"ne ge ne ge shwa" It doesn't mean anything but it's our motto right now because Gavin said it and he knows NO chinese. lol peace.

.....annnnd back to the heat I go.

Not Waiting In Line

Hey ya'll. Supposed to be working on homework (yes my procrastination is just as bad here, as it is there.....and actually there's an exchange rate so it's more prevelant here) but I need to write a bit.
Oh yeah, and they're still showing olympics coverage - even here in the star cafe. They're so proud. What's adorable (I haven't seen this in action but heard about it from someone) is that hundreds of chinese will stop in front of the big screen tvs in the districts to watch the olympics and whatnot. It's hella cute.
We had a group discussion today about the .....not so cool things about living in southern china. This is not meant to scare anyone - I dunno really why I'm posting this other than some of it was really kinda funny - or lead to funny discussions. We discussed the things that you should NOT do. For example:

- Do NOT stay out drinking until 3am and then try to crawl over the gate and come to class
- Do NOT bash in cab windows while drunk and belligerent and then steal some ladies cell phone, her Chinese BF will beat you up
- Do NOT bring home a different woman every night
- Do NOT date your students
- Do NOT not pay the Chinese prositutes you accidentally bring to your room
- Do NOT not tell everyone you're randomly going to France for a week because they will think that you're dead
- Do NOT sell drugs because it is punished by the death penalty (this one is true)

All of these things have either happened to someone in the program previously (obviously not the death penalty one) or are seriously pushed on us not to do. It's ridiculous the amount of common sense that these people totally lack it's mind boggling. And here I thought I was travelling with adults, although many of the people in this group looks promising.

Another note to remember: Don't sleep with anyone Chinese because apparently they all have AIDS......fail. This is not true but they did say that Southern Asia has the highest amount of recorded STD's and AIDS in Asia, and China has the highest rising number in the world. Don't worry I'm buying a chastity belt.

My favorite part about all of this was talking about rascism and learning more special things about Willy D (William O' Donell) Who....is kind of like Yoda but looks like Annikan Skywalker once they take off the Darth Vader mask at the end.....yeah that white.

....oh William. We were discussing how badly we stick out like sore thumbs because of the colors of our hair and skin, and basically that we're minorites....and the man says "this is your chance to be black" basing this on how african americans have felt basically since they've arrived in america. Really? REALLY? We died. It was funny cuz Shai (one of our coordinators who is in fact black) was falling out of her chair laughing. Willie does this. He is socially awkward and it is funny. I can't believe that he used to teach because he has such a difficult time talking in front of such large groups without appearing awkward. But we adore him lol.

Just a Quick Note

Corn on the pizza. Not so Bad.

Fell into the koi pond. I win.

Tsingtao beer is num.

Chinese slowly imporving. (And english slowly leaving obviously)

Team Balls is the best name ever (after team poop).

Finally I'm brining 'cool beans' to China.

Peace.