my disclaimer and day 2
After reading my first post, a certain unnamed person demanded that I show him the 'R' rated version of this blog. I would like to make one thing very clear. My posts thus far have been simple because what I've been doing has been simple. If you are below the age of 18, go away. Seriously, I mean it. Im happy all you guys are following along with my blog here, and as much as I do love entertaining you all, thats not why I'm writing this. This blog is here so that years down the line, I can look back and see things as I see them now all over again, through my 22 year old eyes, and for better or for worse, this is me and my personality. Just a forwarning. (don't get scared, it wont turn into a penthouse forum journal)
Phew! now that we have that crap out of the way, lets move onto todays events.
Jet lag, what more can I say about jet lag. It sucks, I hate it, and its kicking my ass. Both jason and I woke up at about 4AM this morning after going to sleep around midnight(at least we are sleeping in the right part of the day), and found ourselves wide awake. We had both fallen asleep trying to watch the movie '300' the night before, so we started it over from the begining.
300 is a great movie,,,,if you are a guy. You know all those romance novels that women love to tell you are outselling every other genre by leaps and bounds? This movie is the equal and opposite side to that idea. The movie was powerful, goal oriented, and even the women in the movie spoke with authority, logic, and had a viciousness to them that is just plain hot. None of the characters were annoyingly hindered by fear. It uses images of being on the brink of life and death as a way to instigate the bliss of the 'male mission'. If you don't understand what I'm saying, go watch the movie, and read up on some male/female pychology, its cool stuff.
After the movie and a few episodes of US tv shows, we went out for a tasty breakfast of dumplings and a banana. I would have really liked to have an american breakfast, but unless you have a kitchen, no one is up that early to cook them for you. Jason had this thing that was sort of like fried dough but tasted like soup crackers. Not bad, but not really my cup of tea. He seemed to like it.
Today turned out to be hotter than yesterday. It was 7:30AM when we decided to get breakfast, and within 20 feet of exiting the hotel, I already had beads of sweat falling down my face. Im not exagerating, its just that humid here.
After we got back we moved out of our hotel and into our actual dorm for this month. It was a hot, burdened(from all 5000 lbs of my luggage), and miserable move. BUT we were rewarded. Jason and I are living in a suite together. We have a small common room with a couch and a wide coffee table, with 2 single rooms branching off of it. Oh, and we each have queen beds, all for the pleasantly low price of 10 dollars a day.
Today was more successful than last night.
1) We moved into our room(free internet yayyy)
2) We bought bikes(before we bought them we figured that over the last 2 days we had walked over 7 miles just trying to put our lives together, so having a bike is going to make a tremendous difference. turned out to be 22 bucks with the lock included)
3) We bought cellphones(just local use)
Oh, another thing of note. We were cought in a flash monsoon that lasted for about a half hour we were packed under a 10 foot by 30 foot canopy generally used for keeping bikes out of the elements. I've never seen rain fall that hard for that long and be that violent the whole time.
Also one of our cab drivers today kept asking how much things in america costed, and he was really interested in what (we think this is what he was saying, he had a thick accent) jewlery costs in the states. he asked us all sorts of questions about american jewlery, watches and other accessories. I named him Bling and refered to him as such for the rest of the cab ride. I was entertained.
My digestive track has yet to start fighting with me about this new food im shoving into it 3 meals a day. Maybe I'll get by without too bad of a time, knock on wood.
Its 6:45pm right now and im exhausted. Till later...
Phew! now that we have that crap out of the way, lets move onto todays events.
Jet lag, what more can I say about jet lag. It sucks, I hate it, and its kicking my ass. Both jason and I woke up at about 4AM this morning after going to sleep around midnight(at least we are sleeping in the right part of the day), and found ourselves wide awake. We had both fallen asleep trying to watch the movie '300' the night before, so we started it over from the begining.
300 is a great movie,,,,if you are a guy. You know all those romance novels that women love to tell you are outselling every other genre by leaps and bounds? This movie is the equal and opposite side to that idea. The movie was powerful, goal oriented, and even the women in the movie spoke with authority, logic, and had a viciousness to them that is just plain hot. None of the characters were annoyingly hindered by fear. It uses images of being on the brink of life and death as a way to instigate the bliss of the 'male mission'. If you don't understand what I'm saying, go watch the movie, and read up on some male/female pychology, its cool stuff.
After the movie and a few episodes of US tv shows, we went out for a tasty breakfast of dumplings and a banana. I would have really liked to have an american breakfast, but unless you have a kitchen, no one is up that early to cook them for you. Jason had this thing that was sort of like fried dough but tasted like soup crackers. Not bad, but not really my cup of tea. He seemed to like it.
Today turned out to be hotter than yesterday. It was 7:30AM when we decided to get breakfast, and within 20 feet of exiting the hotel, I already had beads of sweat falling down my face. Im not exagerating, its just that humid here.
After we got back we moved out of our hotel and into our actual dorm for this month. It was a hot, burdened(from all 5000 lbs of my luggage), and miserable move. BUT we were rewarded. Jason and I are living in a suite together. We have a small common room with a couch and a wide coffee table, with 2 single rooms branching off of it. Oh, and we each have queen beds, all for the pleasantly low price of 10 dollars a day.
Today was more successful than last night.
1) We moved into our room(free internet yayyy)
2) We bought bikes(before we bought them we figured that over the last 2 days we had walked over 7 miles just trying to put our lives together, so having a bike is going to make a tremendous difference. turned out to be 22 bucks with the lock included)
3) We bought cellphones(just local use)
Oh, another thing of note. We were cought in a flash monsoon that lasted for about a half hour we were packed under a 10 foot by 30 foot canopy generally used for keeping bikes out of the elements. I've never seen rain fall that hard for that long and be that violent the whole time.
Also one of our cab drivers today kept asking how much things in america costed, and he was really interested in what (we think this is what he was saying, he had a thick accent) jewlery costs in the states. he asked us all sorts of questions about american jewlery, watches and other accessories. I named him Bling and refered to him as such for the rest of the cab ride. I was entertained.
My digestive track has yet to start fighting with me about this new food im shoving into it 3 meals a day. Maybe I'll get by without too bad of a time, knock on wood.
Its 6:45pm right now and im exhausted. Till later...
posted by Carl at 2:51 AM
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