China. To start off, I need to upload this more often. I will start with my birthday. Everyone decided to chip and buy a huge cake to surprise me with at dinner. It was probably the best birthday I've ever had. The cake was huge, if I feel like it I might post a picture of it later in this blog. After that I forced people to come to Hoa Hai (a strip of tons of bars and clubs) for my birthday. Our taxi's didn't go to the same place, so we all didn't get to meet up, but I was with Wensess, Constance and Dujuan at a club and it was a lot of fun. We have been taking Chinese classes all week, which is actually really fun. I have a crush on my teacher and invited her to New York. It's really hard to remember what we've been doing so this is probably not in chronological order. We visited Hutongs, which are ancient streets that have small homes on them. Some are poor, which mainly consist of migrants these days. Others are more wealthy, we visited them both, along with a market that was really cool and authentic. A man named Michael showed us around, he is British but has lived in Beijing foeva. We also went to the Summer Palace, which actually had a big impact on China. The emperor's wife decided to use money to build a marble ship, and huge summer palace instead of a navy, resulting in China losing a Naval battle against Japan. It was really nice to visit though. We have been back to Ho Hai (spelling?) a few times, it's sloppy and I enjoy that. We also went to a Buddhist monastery that was roughly 1,000 years old. It was amazing and we were even able to participate in the prayers, which was really cool. We also got prayer bracelets, so I feel like I have some good luck comin my way. At the nightclub I slapped an Asian woman's ass to a techno version of "smack dat" in front of her boyfriend/husband. I'm tired of writing and you are probably tired of reading, so that's all for now. I'll post some pics in a few minutes.
Current Location: Beijing, China.
