- Apr 26, 2001
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going to meet some of my girls family in china. first time on a plane, first time outta country, what are the odds on me coming back alive?
****UPDATE*****
i'm back, and i lived!!! it was a great trip. the flight process took 23 hours. counting lay overs and everything. it was the first time i had ever flown. so i guess u could say it was baptisim by fire, as far as riding in a plane goes. her family was great to me. they bought me suit pants, two shirts, two ties, shoes, and paid for everything.
as far as china goes the main thing that sticks out is the driving. anyone who drives a car in beijing is automaticly a better driver than anyone in america. i am 100% convinced of this. cars zig and zag all over the road. they come over on you, barely missing your car by an inch. while all this is happened 100s of people are crossing the street and hundreds of bike riders are also on the street, its chaos. there are only stop lights on a few roads, there are none on the side roads, no stop signs, so you can imagine the maddness at a four way intersection. if cars didnt have horns driving wouldnt be possible at all there. its an essential tool. you must use your horn 30 times every 20 min trip.
public rest rooms, there are no tolits to sit on, you do your buisness on something made into the floor.
mickey d/kfc the drink sizes are verryyyyyy small in china. their large is our small and the size that comes with a meal is about 2 drinks for me. but its cheap. a meal is 2.50$ and my girl said that was expensive. dvds are like 5$ new i got star wars ep 3 black market dvd for 75 cents.
beggers on the street, these guys are scary, some of them dont have legs, and dont wear shirts to show off their burnt body. me being a white guy, they came right after me looking for money, id dint look them in the eye. just walked past.
the great wall and forbidden city are great. i use to think of calling it the forbidden city as a kind of symbolic image, but it really is a city. its gigantic. it would take a couple of days to see everything in there. its massive. the great wall was also pretty cool,. and a pretty steep climb in some places.
well, thats what i can thinkl of at the moment, anyone got questions.
pic of my girlpic of me
****UPDATE*****
i'm back, and i lived!!! it was a great trip. the flight process took 23 hours. counting lay overs and everything. it was the first time i had ever flown. so i guess u could say it was baptisim by fire, as far as riding in a plane goes. her family was great to me. they bought me suit pants, two shirts, two ties, shoes, and paid for everything.
as far as china goes the main thing that sticks out is the driving. anyone who drives a car in beijing is automaticly a better driver than anyone in america. i am 100% convinced of this. cars zig and zag all over the road. they come over on you, barely missing your car by an inch. while all this is happened 100s of people are crossing the street and hundreds of bike riders are also on the street, its chaos. there are only stop lights on a few roads, there are none on the side roads, no stop signs, so you can imagine the maddness at a four way intersection. if cars didnt have horns driving wouldnt be possible at all there. its an essential tool. you must use your horn 30 times every 20 min trip.
public rest rooms, there are no tolits to sit on, you do your buisness on something made into the floor.
mickey d/kfc the drink sizes are verryyyyyy small in china. their large is our small and the size that comes with a meal is about 2 drinks for me. but its cheap. a meal is 2.50$ and my girl said that was expensive. dvds are like 5$ new i got star wars ep 3 black market dvd for 75 cents.
beggers on the street, these guys are scary, some of them dont have legs, and dont wear shirts to show off their burnt body. me being a white guy, they came right after me looking for money, id dint look them in the eye. just walked past.
the great wall and forbidden city are great. i use to think of calling it the forbidden city as a kind of symbolic image, but it really is a city. its gigantic. it would take a couple of days to see everything in there. its massive. the great wall was also pretty cool,. and a pretty steep climb in some places.
well, thats what i can thinkl of at the moment, anyone got questions.
pic of my girlpic of me
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