So its chinese new year

So chinese new year has finally arrived in chengdu, last night someone in our complex had bought some huge fireworks and set them off so that we on our top floor porch could watch them explode practically above our heads, it was quite cool, somebody else took pictures so I'm going to see if I can either get them to send them to me or else get them now so I can post them on my next blog update. Ok and also, I while ago I found out that people had been leaving comments on my blog, not actually reading my own blog I didn't realize that till not too long ago so I'm now responding to my commenters. To the Wrights, I swear each opportunity I've had to eat western style was purely forced on me by the unacclimated waiguoren I hang out with, the Mickey Ds was also not my idea, I was innocently playing wii with my buddy here and his mom brought everybody back bigmacs haha. Also I tried out the meiguoren mime act, and did really well, unfortunatly I only made equevelent to 5 dollars US in one week work haha, just kidding, though I am a big clown, I'm too much of a coward to don the makeup and monochromatic outfit and pretend to be in boxes and stuff. But yeah its been fun, I'm sure you guys will have fun when we're all here together! To the Morts, yes my height and my being white makes most people look twice, and my roommates are quite all right, one of them is getting married in Tailand soon though so it'll just be me and nori for a while, but its cool cauese nori is the bomb. To Erin, Being surrounded by the language and culture is pretty awesome, its kind of weird though, I got told by a cabbie the other day that my sichuanese is very good, the only problem was I thought I was speaking mandarin haha, also the food is the bomb, so so so spicy and the delivery is free so once chinese new year is over and resturants open back up its chaoshou and fried rice for lunch again, oh yeah and people do try out their english on me alot, by yelling hello out the car window or saying hello and running off or other fun weird english words. And for the weird signs you see some and its pretty funny when you do, but they aren't that frequent though, more frequent is very very very poor english subtitles on the bootleg dvds, quite funny. To everyone else that posted comments, next time post your comment on the form of a question and I'll respond.... eventually, don't hold me to it though.. cause its quite hectic here, can't always get on the internet either so... oh well, I'm going to try to upload some pictures of stuff. Oh, yeah, I got a bike!!! its pretty sweet, I'm going to try to upload some pictures of that too, but not tonight cause I've not yet taken any of it. ok, so that being that and woooooaaaaahhhhh that was a huge firework thhat just exploaded next to my window. And this is strange, thirty seconds of no noise, its crazy...oh well anotherjust boomed. and I'm outta here

Monkey Mountian 1/14/09

Ok, so I went to e mei shan tuesday and wednesday and here are some pictures of it, it was quite fun and today my legs are quite painful after climbing quite a few stairs and sliding on my butt for a couple flights of them seeing as they were more ice than stone. All in all it was fun, I got a package deal where you got sort of a guided tour with about 12 other people, some of them got their bags stolen by monkeys, I've got a video that I'll show everybody when I get back of the aftermath of monkeys stealing a bag full of oranges and peanuts but unfortunatly it won't load here so you'll have to wait till I get back to see it. ok well I'm going to go show my roommates my pictures now too, Peace!

1/8/09

So I tried to upload these pictures the other night but for some reason they would not load, so today it is, they are the entrance of xi nan jiao tong the southwest transportation university, the lovely view out of my window in my bed room as well as hot pot some pictures of the new place, and the awesome painting on Noris' wall that somebody painted off a photoshopped cell phone picture of a chengdu bus stop scene, quite awesome. Oh yeah and there is also a picture of a parade of people advertising something, not quite sure what it was. I'll be trying to take more pictures and make more posts so as to let yall see chengdu more and more everyday. Ok I'm gonna get ready for the day so Peace!!

1/3/09

Well its a new year in china, although everybody is like, oh its your new year, haha, as if it hasn't become 2009 for them yet either. I'm finally able to update things and get back in contact with people its quite nice, before we had moved and I chose one of the not taken rooms, it was upstairs and big and had its own bathroom so I thought it was going to be awesome, unfortuntly it wasn't, it was quite cold and apparently unbeknownst to me it was also the "entertaining" room. Oh, that and the first time I tried to take a shower up there the hot water turned off after about thirty seconds, and the winter water in chengdu is quiiiiite cold. Another drawback to that room is that it had no signal from the internet router, what a bummer. But now I've moved downstairs into the room that the router is actually in and woah, what a difference, once a fidget with the internet settings and get this thing working its lightning fast, also its quite warm with the help of only a tiny little space heater that supprisingly puts out a large amount of heat. I'll be taking and posting some pictures of the new place, its really enormous, and maybe even a video tour it this bloggy thing will let me which I think it will. Also, my parents inform me that there was an earthquake in mianyang (a city not very far from chengdu) and I find it quite funny that the first I'd heard of this quake is from contacts in the states, oh yeah and I'm still alive, survived my first quake in china, though I didn't feel a thing so I'm not sure how heroic my tale of survival is.. haha, ok well I'm going to scrounge up some granola for breakfast so untill my next post or skype call, btw for all who don't know my skype address is bencongmeiguo, anyone wanting to skype me is more than welcome, good night!