More so out of sheer laziness than anything...
Jesse brought up a good point. I am fucking lazy and I have no less than (in alphabetical order)
(1. Addy Adams 2. Lisa Broderick 3. Tom Cioce 4. Jessica Crowther 5. Father Unit 6. Carissa Halston 7. Adam Ivy 8. Mother Unit 9. Alexa Rose 10. Artem Yatsunov) 10 people to keep rather consistently informed of my everyday happenings and existence. Plus the availability of broadband (very much like monkeys) is pretty thin (both on the ground and in the air). Oy how I miss my Eddie Izzard...
Therefore, I am succumbing to actually updating this fucker rather than sending out endless emails. I shall try to provide people with individualized emails whenever possible, but who am I kidding...beer costs like 9 cents here.
OK so to catch everyone up to the same speed, I am currently in Harbin, China which is in the Northeast of China very close to Russia. It is a large city however it is not considered at all touristy thus we crackers receive frequent bewildered stares and last night found ourselves rejoicing upon finding a Pizza Hut.
I am in Harbin along with 13 other students from Drew studying Mandarin intensively (aka my teacher is a gentleman who knows not a word of English...exceedingly interesting I must say) and have been here since May 25th (for the first time in my life I completely misplaced a Tuesday...). We only have 10 more days of classes before we depart on a whirlwind tour of Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai. Look out boys and girls, there be some crazy times ahead...I already have popped my clubbing cherry at a place called No. 1 Disco where there were dancing Chinese girls in cages...um...yeah...I was useless.
The flight here was delayed like 9 hours and overbooked and my seat was given away --> downgrade. However I was therefore upgraded to the Business Class where I was showered with hot towels, Godiva chocolate and prosciutto (Tom don't kill me if I spell that wrong I know bad Italian bad *slaps own hand*) --> major fucking upgrade.
Since I've been here, aside from going to classes, I have: received a Chinese facial massage (not the happy ending kind) from a girl younger than me who I desperately wanted to just put through college, visited a tiger park where we saw tigers and lions and ligers and leopards and jaguars (oh my!)...we even watched as they devoured live chickens and a goat very Jurassic Park-esque...additionally I communed with one leopard who apparently was attracted to my red hair because he fucking pounced and got all up in my grill as he hung on the fence dividing us, seen Star Wars Episode III entirely in Chinese...without subtitles...to discover that Natalie Portman dubbed in Chinese is still hot, I've become proficient in proper chopstick use, played volleyball with Chinese boys, cried at the sight of a salad bar, made "I dated Dodson..." t-shirts with 5 of my friends, and I'm sure many other things.
OK I think that just about does it.
Please either leave comments or email me at cmccaule@drew.edu.
If you want me to bring you back anything in particular feel free to request.
All my love to everyone,
Chelsea
(1. Addy Adams 2. Lisa Broderick 3. Tom Cioce 4. Jessica Crowther 5. Father Unit 6. Carissa Halston 7. Adam Ivy 8. Mother Unit 9. Alexa Rose 10. Artem Yatsunov) 10 people to keep rather consistently informed of my everyday happenings and existence. Plus the availability of broadband (very much like monkeys) is pretty thin (both on the ground and in the air). Oy how I miss my Eddie Izzard...
Therefore, I am succumbing to actually updating this fucker rather than sending out endless emails. I shall try to provide people with individualized emails whenever possible, but who am I kidding...beer costs like 9 cents here.
OK so to catch everyone up to the same speed, I am currently in Harbin, China which is in the Northeast of China very close to Russia. It is a large city however it is not considered at all touristy thus we crackers receive frequent bewildered stares and last night found ourselves rejoicing upon finding a Pizza Hut.
I am in Harbin along with 13 other students from Drew studying Mandarin intensively (aka my teacher is a gentleman who knows not a word of English...exceedingly interesting I must say) and have been here since May 25th (for the first time in my life I completely misplaced a Tuesday...). We only have 10 more days of classes before we depart on a whirlwind tour of Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai. Look out boys and girls, there be some crazy times ahead...I already have popped my clubbing cherry at a place called No. 1 Disco where there were dancing Chinese girls in cages...um...yeah...I was useless.
The flight here was delayed like 9 hours and overbooked and my seat was given away --> downgrade. However I was therefore upgraded to the Business Class where I was showered with hot towels, Godiva chocolate and prosciutto (Tom don't kill me if I spell that wrong I know bad Italian bad *slaps own hand*) --> major fucking upgrade.
Since I've been here, aside from going to classes, I have: received a Chinese facial massage (not the happy ending kind) from a girl younger than me who I desperately wanted to just put through college, visited a tiger park where we saw tigers and lions and ligers and leopards and jaguars (oh my!)...we even watched as they devoured live chickens and a goat very Jurassic Park-esque...additionally I communed with one leopard who apparently was attracted to my red hair because he fucking pounced and got all up in my grill as he hung on the fence dividing us, seen Star Wars Episode III entirely in Chinese...without subtitles...to discover that Natalie Portman dubbed in Chinese is still hot, I've become proficient in proper chopstick use, played volleyball with Chinese boys, cried at the sight of a salad bar, made "I dated Dodson..." t-shirts with 5 of my friends, and I'm sure many other things.
OK I think that just about does it.
Please either leave comments or email me at cmccaule@drew.edu.
If you want me to bring you back anything in particular feel free to request.
All my love to everyone,
Chelsea