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And so it begins
... around to different places and getting the same response, I finally met success in a decidedly sleazy looking hostel catering to horny college students looking for a place to get jiggy. (Since in most Universities in China boys are not allowed in Girls' dorms at all and vice versa, these kinds of hostels are fairly common.) Served my purposes all right though. Dropped my bag off, then went downtown for a few drinks with my new ...
Alone...at last.
... Chen that I want to rent a room in this village for the days that I don't teach during the week so I could learn Chinese. He looked at me like I was crazy. These people don't speak Chinese, they speak a local Haidan dialect which is as remote from Mandarin Chinese as French is to English. Oh well, maybe I will stay there every now and then. Sure beats modern China in my opinion.
Much more to come and this will be re-edited ...
In which I Make New Friends
Chinese bureaucracy is totally confusing. Yesterday I went to a special police station to turn my new work visa into a residency permit, only to find that I needed to re-register my address at the local police station. In other words, I needed to tell the government where I have agreed to live in order to get permission to live in China. What?! On the taxi ride back from the special police station to ...
911 and Autumn festival.
... finger picking practice on the front porch, but I can play that as soft as a whisper. Tomorrow, I am taking the sax out to the outskirts of town where I will enjoy an entire park to myself and play to my heart's content. I can even rent a space at the music store where I bought the guitar if it is sound proof enough for horns. They do rent piano and guitar spaces so I'm sure they will have a suitable room for me to practice in.
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Choo Choo
Last time we left you we were heading into a typhoon. Lets be honest, I have a feeling they give these things these names to make it sound more dramatic. It was just a little wet and windy. Nothing that Michael Fish couldn't predict.
We had a more relaxed last day; avoiding dreaded students and trying to be a bit more cultural, temples and museums and what not. We also saw two chinese men comparing belly sizes and a couple of security men stealing each others shoes and having a ...



