Saturday, June 16, 2007
BACK TO THE FUTURE (OR PAST, WHATEVER)
This is pretty much the only interesting post i wrote while in China, having grand (trust me, they were much much grander at the time) adventures with Dan the Secret Agent Man.
30.1.05 Hello I'm in Turpan at the moment, near where else but Urumuqi...! From Beijing I went to Xi'an and saw the terraotta warriors and cycled around the mosque area which was mad, we had the best food i had had in ages although the air was so filthy you could taste it and i reckon if you were hungry enough you could just open your mouth and eat it too. Then we got train tickets to Urumuqi and got off at Dunhuang. We went fluttering over sanddunes and climbed one so big its counted as a mountain, and lit firecrackers at the top. The next day which i think was yesterday we went to see the mo gao caves whci hare apparently like the cistine chapel of central asia. Then we got back on the train and upgraded from hardseat to hard sleeper, i've gotta say, hard seat is frickin inhumane. oh that's right in dunhuang my hair froze outside. like, before i went to germany people said that it would be so cold your hair would freeze if you didn't dry it before going outside but it never did but here i reached up and freaked out thinking some twigs had got caught in my hair and then i realised that it was my hair and it was really freaky. today Leuitenant Dan the blue-eyed Aussie babe got an ear infection so we spent the arvo at the hospital where there were cigarette butts lying around on the floor and people were smoking in the consultation room. they needed a chinese name so we gave him long dragon which seemed so much funnier at the time. we actually arrived in urumuqi before getting the bus to turpan, thank god because it was minus 25 there and i could feel my fingers freezing on the inside and i thought they would snap off. clambering over the sanddunes was mad, one side was icy and the other was soft and warm, and walking along the edges was easy because of the ice there and i got to pretend i was lawrence of arabia minus the robes and the penis. man we were exhausted but at the abandoned tourist complex at the bottom this old lady made us some mad tea with lots of stuff in it and sat on her bed and watched and waited to refill our cups, then charged us 10 kuai for the experience which was steep but it was worth it. tomorrow we're catching a sleeper bus to kashgar and dude i totally can't wait, we're going to spend like a week there. i reckon after kashgar it's off through sichuan and yunnan and i moved my flight back yet again to march 6, i didn't mean it to be that late, i asked for the 4th or the 5th but he gave me the 6th so fair enough i'll be back the day before uni starts ready to pay some nice juicy late fees, speaking of nice and juicy, it's kebab city here and the food is awesome and i am hungry again. mmmmmm. i didn't get into media and comm, no surprises there, but i even missed out on 'international studies' which had a cut-off of 92, so my marks haven't even raised my uai by 3 points. dude.
poetry time
china china you're so big
is that a twig
in my hair
what a scare
it's not a twig
it's in fact my hair
Ah yes, the poetry. I miss the poetry.
I had totally forgotten about all the trips to doctors for Dan's ear infection. Man he used me like no amateur translator has been used before. And about how we called him 'Chang Long' or Long Dragon and thought it was hilarious. Like I said, blogging was much more fun three years ago. ¶ 12:45
This is pretty much the only interesting post i wrote while in China, having grand (trust me, they were much much grander at the time) adventures with Dan the Secret Agent Man.
30.1.05 Hello I'm in Turpan at the moment, near where else but Urumuqi...! From Beijing I went to Xi'an and saw the terraotta warriors and cycled around the mosque area which was mad, we had the best food i had had in ages although the air was so filthy you could taste it and i reckon if you were hungry enough you could just open your mouth and eat it too. Then we got train tickets to Urumuqi and got off at Dunhuang. We went fluttering over sanddunes and climbed one so big its counted as a mountain, and lit firecrackers at the top. The next day which i think was yesterday we went to see the mo gao caves whci hare apparently like the cistine chapel of central asia. Then we got back on the train and upgraded from hardseat to hard sleeper, i've gotta say, hard seat is frickin inhumane. oh that's right in dunhuang my hair froze outside. like, before i went to germany people said that it would be so cold your hair would freeze if you didn't dry it before going outside but it never did but here i reached up and freaked out thinking some twigs had got caught in my hair and then i realised that it was my hair and it was really freaky. today Leuitenant Dan the blue-eyed Aussie babe got an ear infection so we spent the arvo at the hospital where there were cigarette butts lying around on the floor and people were smoking in the consultation room. they needed a chinese name so we gave him long dragon which seemed so much funnier at the time. we actually arrived in urumuqi before getting the bus to turpan, thank god because it was minus 25 there and i could feel my fingers freezing on the inside and i thought they would snap off. clambering over the sanddunes was mad, one side was icy and the other was soft and warm, and walking along the edges was easy because of the ice there and i got to pretend i was lawrence of arabia minus the robes and the penis. man we were exhausted but at the abandoned tourist complex at the bottom this old lady made us some mad tea with lots of stuff in it and sat on her bed and watched and waited to refill our cups, then charged us 10 kuai for the experience which was steep but it was worth it. tomorrow we're catching a sleeper bus to kashgar and dude i totally can't wait, we're going to spend like a week there. i reckon after kashgar it's off through sichuan and yunnan and i moved my flight back yet again to march 6, i didn't mean it to be that late, i asked for the 4th or the 5th but he gave me the 6th so fair enough i'll be back the day before uni starts ready to pay some nice juicy late fees, speaking of nice and juicy, it's kebab city here and the food is awesome and i am hungry again. mmmmmm. i didn't get into media and comm, no surprises there, but i even missed out on 'international studies' which had a cut-off of 92, so my marks haven't even raised my uai by 3 points. dude.
poetry time
china china you're so big
is that a twig
in my hair
what a scare
it's not a twig
it's in fact my hair
Ah yes, the poetry. I miss the poetry.
I had totally forgotten about all the trips to doctors for Dan's ear infection. Man he used me like no amateur translator has been used before. And about how we called him 'Chang Long' or Long Dragon and thought it was hilarious. Like I said, blogging was much more fun three years ago. ¶ 12:45
