uh so i wrote this a LONG LONG LONG time ago...but i accidentally put it on private
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I'm back in the EC.
I was originally supposed to come back August 16, but I wanted to come back earlier, but the only only ONLY date that was available was July 7 =( I hate coming back so early! Nobody is freaking in town! Late July,
people should start trickling back, starting with I guess Dan or Gene.
So how cool am I? My flight from Beijing departed on 7/7 at 12-ish pm, and arrived in San Francisco on 7/7 at 8-ish am. I traveled back in time! Oh International Date Line, you're so silly. I got to the ATL at 6 pm ish and got home close to 8. The movies were a lot better returning: Firewall (not this one, this movied sucked so much...), Failure to Launch, Cinderalla Man, and Walk the Line. I hadn't seen the latter three and they were pretty good. Though I'm quite sad I got jipped out of The Shaggy Dog on my return flight to Atlanta..jk
At the customs place in San Francisco, I had both of my checked in suitcases opened and examined -___- They threw away some kind of seeds for planting. But luckily, they let me keep the like 3 bags of watermelon seeds and 2 bags of sunflower seeds. Mmmmm! Oh and they stopped at the layer before the bootleg dvds in one of my suitcases..heh. So the airport has some new fangled kind of detector. It shoots pockets of air at you, so dont wear flowy shirts cause they'll balloon up =X
I miss China =( The 豆饱 ("red bean bun") and the 饼 and the super awesome cucumbers and the bubble tea and the dimsum and the fresh, and by fresh I mean really fresh, vegetables and the really sweet watermelons and peaches and soymilk and the really good desserts and the roast duck and the fresh bakery goods baked right in front of you and the jiao zi and the pi pi xia and the river crab and the open food markets and the YOGURT YOGURT YOGURT YOGURT YOGURT and just about everything..except eggplant...bleh...I absolutely
adore Parmalat yogurt pouches. They are like the coolest things ever. America's yogurt definitely can't compare with China's.
I'm super sad that I didn't get to eat any 糖炒栗子 ("sugar roasted chesnuts"). But it's okay, cause I brought back cigarettes for my stupid dad, so I'm hiding them and using them as leverage for him to bring me back lots and lots of them when he goes back in a few months. I told him one stick (is that what they're called?) of cigarettes for 10 lbs of chestnuts =)
While in China, I think I traveled on almost all main modes of transportation possible. Seriously - from foot to bike to motorcycle to taxi to car to public bus to greyhound type luxury tour bus thingy to boat to train to plane. I'm just awesome.
Oh and its amazing the amount of stores there are. There are many vast shopping plazas and buildings of stores and little booths, with small strips of stores sprinkled in on every street or so. I'll give you the 4-1-1 on Asian fashion currently. What's in: capris (except they're longer than the usual American capris I think?), jean skirts, and short sleeved shirts/tanks with lots of lace and/or buttons and/or sparkles. There are a ton of cute shoe designs too. The variety of clothing/accessories vastly exceeds what's available over here.
And of course, I miss playing majiang (TT) Oh, nostalgia
I'd be drinking a Parmalat peach yogurt pouch right now and owning at majiang. *sigh*
I'll upload pictures on facebook whenever I get around to it. I might add some here too~
Ahhhh just two more hours until gametime! Go Portugal and viva italia!!!
我爱中国
