SOOO HUNGRY!

01:09BST
KUNMING - WANG LAOSHI'S APT

so yesterday was pretty awesome. this whole not being chaperoned thing is pretty cool in the sense that i dont feel forced to eat all of the time. instead of concentrating really hard on a language and communicating with a host, i was able to just walk around, ask people things at my own leisure, and buy everything in the world. i talked to this jamaican guy for awhile, that was pretty cool. after a couple of hours of floating around near the university, i met up with rob and lou ke ji (this really cool kid whos engaged in more than one thing) to grab some more korean food and frollick around town. we went to a 'cool' record store and then walked to a park to watch some people play traditional chinese music. when we finally headed over to the gym to play some ping pong qio, i was ready to do something active. playing against wang laoshi was pretty scary. she (along with most chinese people i guess) hold the paddle differently and she mad smacked that ball around.... but i still beat her!!! considering her skill, i think that will have to be my crowning achievement of being in china. afterwords, i successfully refused a giant dinner and got to bed at a decent hour.

this morning, i slept way later that i should have, but whos counting? rob de dutze bu xufu de (tummy ache) so i just went out on my own today. i spent a good four hours finding this market that i thought i could walk to (I COULD!), talking to people on the street, HAGGLING!!, and enjoying this beautiful city. when i got back, yang laoshi took me to a tea mall to get some goods, and then got back (i took a cab by myself!) to rob who was still dying. i went out to the internet cafe (BY MYSELF!) to get some stuff done. the rest of the day was pretty quiet from there. the boy went to l'hopital for several hours, i repacked my goods and chatted with wang laoshi's son for awhile.

tomorrow we are going to go to a hotel to do a camp counselor orientation and the next day we are off to camp. im not sure what the internet sitch is going to be, but it sounds like there are going to be some pretty cool counselors and whatnot.

and now, some random factoids that only i would appreciate:

distance from apt to bank: 437 steps
distance from apt to internet cafe: 700 steps
distance from apt to red stick things: 220 steps
distance from apt to beginning of city center: 1100 steps
distance from city center map to secret market (not a secret but hey): 689 steps
im not going to end this in priceless.