Something disturbing that I notice here is that: I am among the taller half of the population. It’s quite a morale boost to spend your day towering over the rest of the masses. Of course, Reed is like the friggin’ tallest guy in China. Still, it’s not a bad thing. There are numerous advantages to being the same/greater height than many adults. Such as awesome dominating power and control. Yeah, that’s right. I’ll whup anyone with my tai chi skills.
Before Jimmy shaved his head, many people asked if we were twins. I know asians all look the same, but c’mon! You guys mix us up back at home! You’d think members of our kind would recognize the subtle differences! I don’t look that much like Jimmy!#@$
Part of the whole twins thing, I think, stems from the one child policy here. Since my mom is here with us, and since she looks like a local, they believe that she too is bound by the policy, and thus the only way for here to possibly have two children is for them to be twins. But we’re not. If I had a penny for every time some freshman (sophomore now, eh?) called me “Jimmy” I would, have, like $0.07. And that goes quite a long ways here in China. I could get __two__ pieces of gum. Two, I said!
Man, this DVD player we got is cool. I’m seeing something like 2 movies a day, and someone in our program got a DVD of Reign of Fire. Wonder if it’s anygood.
Oh yeah, Reed got his bike stolen again, even though it was locked to Angee’s bike with a Kryptolock. Angee thinks that he didn’t lock it completely, but the adeptness of Chinese bike thieves is something to be feared. So sometime this week, we’re gonna try and set up a sting operation. It’ll be sweet – we got, like, two-way radios, and binoculars, and camo gear, and we can be all tactical and shit. I wonder if we can make citizen’s arrests in China? If we can’t, we’ll claim we’re members of the Red Guard, and that the bike once belonged to Mao. Then we’ll claim that, in addition to stealing bikes, the thief also was selling drugs, porn, and peddling American Rock and Roll to corrupt the youth. Yeah, that’ll work.
We’ll also try to get it on video tape. That’d be, like, Totally Sweet. I’d flip out (http://www.realultimatepower.net)
Oh yeah, and we’re probably (maybe) gonna get to work on next year’s movie. I can’t reveal anything except for the following: Reed and I will likely be in it. There. Straight from the horse’s mouth.
-fw
you are like 5’4 dont lie