July 2007
15 posts
Hospital
When I came back two days ago I learned my grandmother was in the hospital since before I left. I knew something was wrong. It’s that feeling you get, you know? I was worried out of my mind for both my Grandfather and my Grandmother who could both die at any minute. They’re now in two different hospitals, my grandfather can still die any minute, they’re just trying to make it a...
Don't want to leave
I have mixed emotions right now, I either don’t want to go back and want to stay with some of my friends or I really want to go back and see my family and other friends. I’m still going to miss everyone here when I leave tomorrow. I guess I’ve really made friends with Galen, Ricky, Justin, Alan, Matthew, Scott, Kurt, and Eric. Almost all of them are on the Canada flight. The only...
Silk factory
It seems everyone is going to the silk factory today, and they think the highlight of yesterday was watching Kurt and I try to dunk eachother at the same time. The water town stank like sewage. But then again, it probably was sewage. I really wanted to try the Pea pod flavoured ice cream bar, but I wouldn’t buy it from there. Everyone that went though seemed like they didn’t want to...
Spoiled
I put Sarah’s alarm clock across the room so she would have to get up to turn it off. Didn’t work. She’s being a spoiled brat again. I just want to get up at the scheduled time and go to everything. Going down to breakfast today I ate with Matthew. He decided to stay behind, same with Janieve, Galen, and Justin. I bought the tea set, Galen’s instrument and a mini French...
Bus ride
Very very very long bus ride. We first ate, there seemed to be very little for Vegi’s in Hongjouh, yet Lunch in Wu Xie wasn’t much different. Plus I wasn’t going to touch the thing with a head still attached that everyone said tasted like ass. We went to a Chinese Horse show, I wish I knew what they were saying because it seemed like a war story that would have been interesting...
Buddhist temple
This morning took me a while to get up because Sarah and Janieve aren’t morning people. We got to go to the buddhist Temple today, I got a little happy buddah along with two turtles to give to friends in hopes they would live longer then I’m going to. Afterwards we went to the tea shop where I bought the tea for Grandpa and I, then I went and bought a few treats for everyone to try out...
Early flight
We were again on the early flight. It was a two hour flight and I actually slept through most of it, though I kinda slept on top of Scott >.> Our whole lane slept through the flight and ten minutes before we were about to land we got our drinks and snacks because we all woke up at the same time, which was kinda weird. When we finally got there we just sat around the hotel. It wasn’t...
Cruddy hotel
So far I really don’t like this hotel, basically if you have to use the restroom you can’t turn off the lamp, so you wake everyone up. Everyone has been telling me to look for a knob but I can’t find one. Today we get to go see the Farmer’s Paintings and the Chinese paper-cuts. I bought one for Auntie Ching. I hope she likes it, since she keeps saying she’s not going...
No wake up call
We never got our wakeup call. So instead we went down there and mentioned it to Karen who did all the wakeup calls to every room. We took off for Xian around 7:45 am. One flight was cancelled till later, and another got there before us, even though we had to get on the plane earlier and get up earlier, it kinda sucked. First thing we did was get on the buses and head towards the Terra Cotta...
The Forbbiden City is beautiful
We weren’t able to get to the Forbidden City first like we had hoped, the traffic here is horrible, so basically we went through Tianamen Square to the Forbidden City and into the restaurant. Today is the first concert, it’s making me a little pissy because I got no rehearsal, and had to leave early to get “acquainted with the basses” but really to set up. But I guess...
Temple of Heaven
We went to the Temple of Heaven where we found many Senior citizens working out and having fun. We need a place like that back at home. Afterwards we got to go to the Summer Palace which was extreamly long. The boat ride was boring, though fun for pictures. After that we went straight to the Pearl Shop which was kinda fun. Janieve got a free 200 Yuan necklace. While I bought jade one ring and a...
Great Wall
Basically we are going to the Great Wall today eating, and then more eating. The Great Wall was kinda fun, though I’m told I had a slight seizure because of the altitude, but just about everyone did. The places we went to eat were fun, though the Clossenai factory didn’t have any salt and pepper shakers that I wanted to get my grandmother. And the tea sets were over 1000 Yuan. Instead...
The Shortest day
Shortest day of my life, but somehow it seemed like the longest. Then again I don’t know how I should put it, I’ve been up for 24 hours. Whenever I would start to fall asleep I would be suddenly awakened by Daniel kicking my chair or suddenly shaking it because he was angry at the movie for some reason. Sometimes I wondered why he was staying behind someone trying to sleep. When we...
Taking off
I took off towards China with everyone today, the line wait was horrible with everything we had to do. We had a wait of over 1 hour to get our bags checked in and everything. By the time we got to San Francisco everyone was ready for it to be over, we weren’t ready for the one hour lay away on the plane and the eleven hour flight. Before we sat down there was alot of seat shuffling which...
Goodbye is never the right word
Ok, so many people know that I’m leaving for China this monday. But that’s not as bad as all my friends heading off to Universities. All my top four except one are leaving me, and I just want them to know that I’ll never say goodbye to them because to me that means I’ll never see you again. And I truely wish to see all of you again, no matter what it is inside me...