Not dead but definitely dying

Wow, it��s hot here. Yesterday, we hit 40+ Celsius, or 104+ F. For all ya damn yanks.

Luckily for me, I��ve picked up a regionless DVD/CD/VCD/SVCD/DQERD/TLA/SAS/GIGN Player for about $75. AND the local minimart happens to have the entire Studio Ghibli (http://www.nausicaa.net) Collection of (pirate) DVD��s, and they��re subtitled. I am so happy, I am about to bust. Robert – all our subtitling has been for naught :0

BTW, MIB2 is pretty funny. Especially if you’re paying one US dollar for a crappy movie you’d never go near in the states. Woo!

Also, I think I might have a source for, eh, “real 100% authentic” computer games. So if anyone out there -would like to try out a new, completely legal 100% authentic game-, drop me a line. Same for any movies. But no guarentees.

The classes that we’re taking here are pretty bad. It’s not that I don’t enjoy drilling, tests, quizzes, being the youngest in the class, or even being terrible at Chinese compared to college kids who have been taking the language for several more years than I have. Oh, no, that’s not a problem at all.

It’s because the air conditioning is always shutting itself off, as if it has a mind of its own.

AC: Hahah! Now I make your room livable and cool, but you Humans are mere bugs! Tremble at my power!

Students: Thank you, oh AC God for a cool 18C Climate!

AC: Your offerings anger me! Roast like Beijing Roast Duck, Humans!

Students: Aiee!

Or something like that. I think the heat is gettin’ to me head.

At least things are slightly looking up. This Thursday, we’ll finally be outta Tai Chi class. Although getting up at 6:29 every morning for the 6:30 class is just tee-friggin-rific (Keep in mind I get up later when going to school during the normal school year), I just can’t stand doing it anymore. What’s worse, the 120 Yuan deposit we each gave for the class (we get it back if we attend every class) is gone because I was lazy the day after we came back from Tianjing. 120 Yuan! That’s, like 12 DVD’s!

My pop’s coming tomorrow night with a laptop, so you can be regaled with pictures (Jimmy got his head shaved. Then, in his never ending search for baldness, the cheap electric razor he got cut the top of his head up into ribbons. It’s quite a sight). Maybe then, you won’t be as bored when you read this. If anyone is reading this at all.

Aw geez, forget it. I’m gonna go to the school main computer lab to play 400×300 software mode CS (http://www.counter-strike.net) against terrible Chinese kids who think they’re the proverbial “shiznit.” With a name like “AzNWarrior” or “F***YouAndYourFamily” (Absolutely not kidding about that one), how can you lose?

-fw