Arrival/Questions
Sunday: After one hour of sleep, movers moved most of my things to storage. Monday: Seven hours of sleep, an errand frenzy, cleaning, additional packing... Tuesday: Operating on three hours of sleep, I sold the car mere moments before giving up and selling to CarMax for a pittance. I also moved two full loads of goods to the storage unit, visited with friends, and stayed up all night waiting for the morning departure... Wednesday: After arriving way too early, I found out my "flight" was actually two flights and we wouldn't just "touch down" in Jersey, there would be a plane change to a 777-200. Only 100 of 250 seats were occupied, and after 18 hours of travel, I landed in Beijing, China. It is just after 11pm here, 11am EDT and the last time I slept more than 10 minutes was 51 hours ago. Nothing much to say about the city yet, except I had to wait 3 hours after my arrival for a proposal of marriage and both footless and armless men spoke to me in Mandarin. And, pedestrians do not have the right of way.
In place of a meaningful post, I invite you to ask questions and I will do my best to answer all of them. Some recent questions (ask again if you like): "What is your budget?," "Are there places you would not return to?," "How do you know where to go?" and, always a favorite, "What makes you think you can do this?"
In place of a meaningful post, I invite you to ask questions and I will do my best to answer all of them. Some recent questions (ask again if you like): "What is your budget?," "Are there places you would not return to?," "How do you know where to go?" and, always a favorite, "What makes you think you can do this?"
7 Comments:
you should have a hotshot quickly build you an Ask A Question area as that would be quite awesome indeed.
I fully embrace the generosity of the potential "hotshot."
How much Mandarin did you learn before going?
(All I know is "ni hao".)
I found your site off of Dale Keiger's The Scribbler site and was caught by your blog because I just flew out of Beijing on August 23 after studying martial arts at Wudan and Shaolin for two weeks. I'd love to hear other impressions of China and wish you the very best on your trip.
1) Did you accept the marriage proposal?
2) Did you suggest to the armless man and the footless man that they might be well served by joining forces?
3) How's the food?
4) (stupid question alert) Is clean water for drinking, washing and cooking an issue?
5) Were there movies on the flight? If so, which ones?
More later. I hope you got some sleep.
The Mandarin section of this link might be helpful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_sexual_slang
This link might also be fun:
http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/phrase1.html
They spoke to you in Mandarin? Like the orange?
GET SOME SLEEP GIRL!
will you marry me? i have feet and arms, i also speak english.
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