Wo Yao/Bo Yao

I realize that a lot of my shock with China involves coming to a place where I can't read anything or communicate with anyone. So far nothing has been too suprising though. I am actually pretty happy about the language barrier. It turns out to be a very exciting challenge which I am enjoying immensely. The challenge is: learn as much of a language as possible, as fast as you can, so that you can survive in a foriegn country. So I'm starting at the beggining as I imagine I did as a child with I want/need "insert noun here" and "I don't want/need". Building from there I beleive I'll be able to handle everything China could throw at me... eventually. I had my first resturant experience last night where I spoke only Mandarin.

Gaungzhou is an interesting city. There is an amazing distinction between the middle class and poor. The poor neighborhoods are amazing with a significant amount of character. I've enjoyed spending most of my time walking through grundgy back alleys and getting stared/pointed at. Well I don't enjoy the starring, but its still less than when I had pink hair.

I leave today for Guilin.

Two more great t-shirts:
I want grow up, not blow up.

Global Warming, Bird Vision, Don't Recycle (Then there was the recycle symbol with and arrow breaking off so that and point away from the cycle. Its one of the coolest things I've seen in a while.)

Hope you're all doing well.