oh good pete!!!!

who's pete?

anyway, i am so sorry i haven't written in forever. my day starts about 6:30 am, and ends about midnight. i need sleep. this show process is maddening, but i am learning. i should have learned some chinese before i came, for example,
"don't sit on that." 'please don't touch anything, unless i tell you" "move", etc, etc... the only thing i do know is stop. the word stop in chinese, is ting. and you have to say ting 3 times, progressivly getting louder, until your yelling. it's so frustrating. and i desperately need to know the word for fork. i finally got a chinese help book, with words spelled out phonetically. because i have so much time to read it. i am already tired of fried rice. everybody makes fun of me for eating bananas all the time. and the bananas here are sooooooo good. and of course i found skippy peanut butter. ha ha, take that tiny chinese peeps, i got the peanut butter. i am trying new things though, like prawns. they are okay if they're seasoned well.

some things you'll never see in the states...

children use the bathroom anywhere. i mean anywhere! they are no diapers here. it's odd and kind-of gross.

everybody squats as a way to rest. i can't last more then 2 minutes. i think the crew is going to have a competition on who can stay down the longest. i am gonna win.

staring. not like, "the little kid is looking at you" staring, but the "you might be a big white alien." staring. i find it's fun to make a game out of it, and stare back until the asian person has to break eye contact. yes, i am a grown adult.


oh and for the record, the U.S. has hurricanes, china has typhoons. and a true monsoon season, which is now. it's so hot and humid, i will never have good hair...

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