my heart's a battleground…

This country is so priceless.

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and it’s epically priced at like 8 kuai.

Which means it’s like 1 dàlā~

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So I haven’t really been able to elaborate on some of my thoughts post-landing in Beijing:

1) Chinese like just don’t care. Their philosophy is just ［沒關係].

And it’s. just. GREAT. That’s actually what I LOVE about this place. No one cares

Traffic lights are a suggestion here.

Which is funny, yet scary at the same time. Unlike the states, it doesn’t seem like there are any laws here saying that if someone gets hit by a car, the driver would automatically be guilty—-here, the drivers don’t give a shit if they run you over. The value of human life here is much, much less.

I guess that’s why there are abortion factories—or basically public hospitals that have abortion machines that can do even two at the same time o_O. S0o scary.

Honking basically translates to “I’m coming!” LoL.

Unlike Japan, no body cares about what other people think,

and because of that, in some ways, it’s less stressful here.

That also makes it MUCH easier to adjust here. 楽。I can do wtvr the fuck I want, and I don’t even feel people looking at me. Foreigners, for some odd reason, don’t stand out like a sore thumb like they do in Japan. I dunno why, but I think it’s because here, no one cares.

However, apparently they do care about my Sailor Neptune shoes. LoL, yesterday Becky was telling me on my way back from the ATM that people kept looking at my shoes. I guess due to my selective vision, I didn’t notice it, but apparently people were just walking by and looking for a sec.

I guess my shoes are that hot.

Yesterday I also saw some random street vendor guy selling animals. OMG he had the CUTEST RABBITS EVERRR!!! I totally wanted to buy one, but I wasn’t sure if it had rabies or something lol. He even put baby kittens in the SMALLEST CAGES EVER–like, cages as small as those baby turtle cages. It’s just hilarious that people can do that in China. My ass would also get quarantined in the U.S. had I touched livestock…

And plus, I probably didn’t get the immunization for livestock lol.

I also noticed that Chinese don’t seem to dress up as much as the Japanese. They definitely don’t care about their appearance as much as the Japanese do (and no offense, I thought that the Japanese fashion didn’t make sense?…). I always feel out of place being over dressed and carrying a real tokidoki bag (I guess it’s from my one year living in Japan)…yeah…nice but not nice I guess >-<

2) I was actually surprised that Beijing had such dusty roads...I was also surprised at how un-modernized Beijing is for a capital (compared to other major capitals in Asian countries). I thought there would be a shit ton more taller buildings, and I thought that it would just be...more modernized. I'm surprised there's alot of old buildings (OLD, not traditional). I guess Shanghai is going to be more of the stereotypical Asian city capital

3) The food here isn’t that good. I also haven’t been that hungry lately. They put t0o many weird herbs that have too strong of a taste. Ew, and no matter what I do, it won’t leave my mouth for like 30 minutes. I guess it must be a Northern thing to put a shitton of herbs in their dishes.

4) I’m surprised, yet also quite impressed at the amount of people that can speak English. Compared to Japan, there are WAY more English speakers here

And also madd GOOD ones too.

Shiet, I remember my teachers back in Japan not being able to speak English for SHIT. But here, shit, all the Laoshis speak English, and their knowledge of it is s0o downpacked. Even the students…jesus christ.

There are some other things, but I forgot

And wtf?!!??! NOW Mount Holyoke decided to have the OPTION of having your study abroad grades count?!?!!!?!?! T_T wtf. Shiet, now I actually have to study on this program…

Fuck.

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This morning when the hotel personnel came into my room to take our temperatures, she caught me when I was ABOUT to put my make up on, so like of course I was like ‘Oh no…’

But then before she put the thermometer gun to my head, she said:
［很漂亮］

And of course, the first rection I had was to pull of the Japanese thing of:［不是，不是］

But then after that, it made me think a little differently about myself…

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I guess Greg was right…not everyone is going to think you’re hot…beauty, unfortunately, is in the eye of the beholder. It makes sense for evolutionary reasons (because if everyone thought that the same person was hot, then we would not be able to reproduce/our species would become extinct). I guess in Japan I’m not considered to be [漂亮], but in China I am.

Maybe that’s why most of my boyfriends were Chinese…hahahaa

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One girl got quarantined

Because apparently there were 2 confirmed cases of people having the piggy virus on her plane.

So basically she had to be put in this sweet-ass 4 star hotel w/full meals, a real shower, and a single. Wtf, that’s a pretty fucken sweet deal

Shiet man, now I want to get my ass quarantined so that I can be stuck in a 4 star hotel room, all paid in courtesy of the U.S. government ROTFL!

I mean shiet, as long as she has the internet, it should be all good XD

It’s weird though, I cannot believe they can do that shit in this country. In the U.S., that shit just wouldn’t happen. Even this morning I got a knock on my door, and it was some hotel personnel that needed to take our temperature…jesus, it’s just s0o weird.

Her roomate Sim Card had a fever today

Everyone else has been getting sick because of the fucken food here. I mean yesterday that shit stopped for me, but still

Yesterday everyone got sick from the cafeteria food—EXCEPT ME~~~ because I’m GOD.

It’s weird, it feels like I’m constantly ingesting chemicals. Only when I eat out do I sometimes not feel that way. I’m also scared to eat all the food here (especially the milk products -_-) because there’s no FDA regulations here

Which means they can put ANYTHING in their foods

I ate a pretz last night, and even this morning my tummy felt yucky. Bleh. Today I didn’t eat much (Just a box of pocky, 1.5 Starbucks take out mocha drinks, and 1/2 of a passionfruit aloe drink), and quite frankly, I’m not that hungry here.

I also was s0o0o tired today in class, I think it’s because last night we had a ridiculous amount of 功課–to the point where I had to wake up this morning only after 3.5 hours of sleep to do my homework.

Then the bitch Panda Face Laoshi had to make a big fucken deal about the fact that I apparently didn’t yushi the fucken text (I mean I guess it’s implied, but still, never confirmed) infront of the whole class. I seriously didn’t care, and no one else yushi’d either so I really couldn’t give a crap.

And 虫Faced Korean girl just sat there with her big buggy-ass eyes just judging people. Ew. I kinda wanna just punch her and cuss her out.

Later on, we had to g2 the fucken 唱歌 class that I REALLY didn’t feel like doing. Everyone was s0o fucken tired today in class due the previous night of staying up and doing our essay (haha). While we were singing the last song ‘Superstar’ by S.H.E. we got to the chorus where she goes ‘You are my superstar’–but instead it came out as:

“You are my super sta兒”

LOL. We all couldn’t stop laughing. The funny part was that 真糟糕 of course, was the one who did that on purpose. BAHAHAHAA, his 中文 is 真糟糕! hahaha!

…But then Becky thought that I was the one who did that (and on purpose too), and we all started laughing. It was epic. Shiet, I guess just the ‘兒’ part slipped out by accident, by being in Beijing for too long hahahaha.

And ew, while we were laughing out loud, 虫Face was just sitting there and I think giving the psycho look and talking shit to that other Korean girl from Smith. Ew, that bitch seriously needs to get laid.

Afterwards, I was s0o tired that I just passed out and went to bed. i slept for 4 hours, and Becky was sweet for turning the lights off n’shit. She really didn’t need to do that, because I usually like the sleep with some light on (unless there’s someone in the room with me).

I’m craving kal bi wrapped in lettuce with that miso paste right now.

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I kept my promise.

So wtf.

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［。。。我記得一個人。。。

只要能讓你開心我甚麼都願意。。。］

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You know you’ve been around too much Chinese if you read ‘eBay’ on the ebay site and think ［一杯茶] .

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I used your cake eraser today. ♥

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So I FINALLY met Eliza!!! XD XD

She’s great, she even gave me a CHINESE omamori!!!

(Note: I took this picture with my Japanese keitai that I haven’t powered on in AGES)

One of Eliza’s friends from Chengdu was telling us a joke about Beijing people–how they basically always ask people “Have you eaten eat?” as like a first greeting,

so the joke goes that someone walks out of the bathroom, and a Beijing person goes up to them and says, “Have you eaten yet?”

DAHAHAHAH!!! I couldn’t stop laughing when I heard that joke…

So despite the Beijing人 habit, I think Wang Laoshi said something in class about how Chinese people (but I guess in reality, ONLY Beijing people) always ask if you’ve eaten yet due to a history of famine and such…

But still..I mean a fucken bathroom…lol

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