First week

Well as my first week comes to end, I must admit I am quite happy with my initial experience. I mean yea (you'll be able to understand this better once I start uploading pictures) the facilities are pretty crappy, and yea that's pretty much the worst part. Other than that I mean I'm kept busy training 3 times a day, and I'm pretty tired at night so I sleep relatively well. I haven't got sick yet, which is a real good sign because people here say that people usually get sick the first week off of the crappy food they serve, so yea. E-mail me at dakine89@mac.com if you want to leave a message because the Chinese government doesn't allow it's people to log onto blogs just incase people are saying bad things about the government, some free speech huh? Anyways, my last session for today consists of running up and down a mountain four times, later peoples. PEACE

Here I am

Hey so here i am at the kung fu place. you know its not the greatest accommodation, in fact it makes our house look like a palace, but what did you expect. its nice, peaceful, and simple. anyways, the training is tough, three sessions per day, and should whup me into shape right quick. a lot of the people here are from england and surprisingly it is they're first time doing kung fu. i chose to do mantis boxing, which is awesome, and some of the fundamentals are different from my kung fu, so that part is kinda hard. I'm in a class with 4 other people, some who have been at the school for almost 5 months, so they're good. the mantis master watched my stretching and i demonstrated a traditional shaolin form and he recognized that i was really good, so he did a week's worth of training with me in the first morning class. my leg's are really aching. then we did qi gong for like half an hour, and then it was lunch. in about 2 hrs. we have one more session of training and then relaxation, although it'll probably pass out reall soon.

Chinese Factory

I went to China yesterday for the first time in my life. It was with my cousin Joy and her designer for her company. They make office supplies, and all other kinds 'o stuff with Swarovski Crystals, I still don't understand what the big deal with them is, but anyways, they sell a lot of their stuff to huge brands in the US like Target, Sears, Wal Mart, so when you buy stuff there, you are actually buying my cousins product. So she was checking out a new factory yesterday because she wants to start doing woodwork. The thing is I've never been to a factory before, and it was pretty sad. All these people who work hours, and hours every day, just to get enough money to get by, and a lot of them were my age, it really makes you think. Joy even said that that factory was one of the better ones she's been to, and that a lot of Chinese factories just have terrible conditions with child labor, dirty water on the floor, no windows,and really hot conditions. I can't imagine going to one of those factories. On a happier note, my time with my cousins has been real great and they've been really kind. Tonight I might go out on the town with this girl who is one of my cousin's older friend's who is my age, super rad. Later gators.

I'm in Hong Kong

Well, about 27 hours ago (including lay overs, etc.) I started my journey and I'm now in Hong Kong with my Cousins the Zweigs, after of course a 5 hr. flight to San Francisco and then a 13 hr. flight to Hong Kong. On the Hong Kong flight, for some reason the row of chairs in front of my row was taken out so I got close to 5 ft. of leg-room, sick gnarly brah! Not so sick is the fact that there were crappy movies playing over and over again the entire flight. Two weird things. One when I was walking through the airport, there was this guy walking next to me with a hat on, and an angry security guard made him take it off, and the other thing is that I am pretty much the tallest person in Hong Kong. Aight, then peace out.

Its official

I'm officially leaving my house in less than 4 hrs. I'm friggin pumped like none otha. I got a little bit sad today as I started to realize that I was going to be leavin real soon, but I'll be back in 2 months so it's only like I'm going to camp or some'n some'n. Well, that's all for now, and if all goes well my next post will be while i'm in Hong Kong ba Jong Jong. Keep on keepin on.