a very perry day
my profile should read: likes longs walks...through guangzhou. i walked all the way from tianhe (think 9 miles or so north of zsu on the other side) to zsu the other day, thinking that i would have a rest when perry came to visit me. nono, for perry's idea of a fun time is also to go wandering! so a-wandering we went:) it was a surreal day for me because for much of it, i felt as if we should have been in new haven, sitting around some forgotten restaurant (like samurai...as we had the all you can eat sushi!), discussing our friends (the people we wished were dining with us) and getting ready to put on our big jackets and trudge out in the snow. how weird to go outside and find that guangzhou has finally decided to show some sunlight and it feels and looks like a gorgeous autumn day!
god, it was so nice to talk to perry--he makes me look at the world in an entirely new way and explains things in a way that i can't. we were especially excited by the idea of a get-together/sleep-over at his house over christmas...with all of you guys present!!! would that not be amazing?? think about it...do...you have an entire year;) we kept saying, "wouldn't it be fun if so-and-so were here?" and "what would so-and-so think about this?" seeing perry makes me realize just how much i miss walking into the next room or across the courtyard and flopping down somewhere and just BEING with you guys. i miss talking about nothing and sitting on futons hugging cushions while snow glazed the windows of our rooms. i miss watching fantastic tv shows with you guys while working out or pretending to study...or not;) i miss late yorkside nights and playwright, surprisingly;) and oh my...i would almost kill for a piece of claire's lithuanian coffee cake, a burrito from the cart, and a canoli or a FAT slice of cheesecake. oh...*drooool* ai ya...look what perry has done to me!:)
anyway, in walking through the city, i think i've come to realize how much a part of it i am and how much more a part of it i'm not. does that make sense? i feel like a spectator in my own doings, sometimes, wandering from hutong to hutong and from one construction site to another. it's clear to me that people wonder where i'm going and why i'm walking alone, but at other times, i'm wonderfully insignificant and blend in with the rest of the scenery. sometimes the buildings don't hit me until i happen to glance up at the sky. i didn't even realize that people lived above the shops in xiadu today until my chinese tutor took me up to the 9th floor (where she lives...no elevator guys! nada! we had to climb...i complained about the 4th floor--could you imagine the 9th?!?) and we gazed at the skyline from her window. i need to learn to look up more, i guess. i'm too busy gazing at what people are doing all around me to really look at the skyline or marvel at the tallness. perry told me that hong kong 40-50 years ago looks like guangzhou today, only gz is much more small scale. amazing. i'm a part of a city that is at once "medieval" in its alley-ways and startlingly modern on its streets.
i'm off on another walk...it will be 4 days now. i have no idea where i'm going today, but it should be another adventure:) i wish you could see it!
god, it was so nice to talk to perry--he makes me look at the world in an entirely new way and explains things in a way that i can't. we were especially excited by the idea of a get-together/sleep-over at his house over christmas...with all of you guys present!!! would that not be amazing?? think about it...do...you have an entire year;) we kept saying, "wouldn't it be fun if so-and-so were here?" and "what would so-and-so think about this?" seeing perry makes me realize just how much i miss walking into the next room or across the courtyard and flopping down somewhere and just BEING with you guys. i miss talking about nothing and sitting on futons hugging cushions while snow glazed the windows of our rooms. i miss watching fantastic tv shows with you guys while working out or pretending to study...or not;) i miss late yorkside nights and playwright, surprisingly;) and oh my...i would almost kill for a piece of claire's lithuanian coffee cake, a burrito from the cart, and a canoli or a FAT slice of cheesecake. oh...*drooool* ai ya...look what perry has done to me!:)
anyway, in walking through the city, i think i've come to realize how much a part of it i am and how much more a part of it i'm not. does that make sense? i feel like a spectator in my own doings, sometimes, wandering from hutong to hutong and from one construction site to another. it's clear to me that people wonder where i'm going and why i'm walking alone, but at other times, i'm wonderfully insignificant and blend in with the rest of the scenery. sometimes the buildings don't hit me until i happen to glance up at the sky. i didn't even realize that people lived above the shops in xiadu today until my chinese tutor took me up to the 9th floor (where she lives...no elevator guys! nada! we had to climb...i complained about the 4th floor--could you imagine the 9th?!?) and we gazed at the skyline from her window. i need to learn to look up more, i guess. i'm too busy gazing at what people are doing all around me to really look at the skyline or marvel at the tallness. perry told me that hong kong 40-50 years ago looks like guangzhou today, only gz is much more small scale. amazing. i'm a part of a city that is at once "medieval" in its alley-ways and startlingly modern on its streets.
i'm off on another walk...it will be 4 days now. i have no idea where i'm going today, but it should be another adventure:) i wish you could see it!