[photo from the balcony-esque feature of our room at the hostel...pretty different from shanghai]so i’d like to start this entry off with some of the ironies i’m experiencing right at this moment:
first, some background. i’m currently sitting in the lobby/lounge area of the 4 eyes international youth hostel in hangzhou, china. i’m on a little weekend trip with my roommate, lu chao...more on this and the reason in a few…however, i want to point out a couple of things that i think are ironic right now:
· on the t.v. to my left, the channel ftv.com [fashion tv?] is showing a broadway run from the sao paulo fashion week from this past January. ironic why?: well i think it’s pretty ironic that i’m on my first trip with my new foreign roommate in a city south of shanghai and that the city in which my old friend [and foreign exchange student] thiago now lives and attends university. it’s weird the memories that are running through my head now from the past and just this past week now.
· playing throughout the area is familiar music…we just finished what i believe was the entire carrie underwood soundtrack, and now norah jones’ “sunrise” is on. who’d ‘a thought that in a pretty serene city south of shanghai [in cHiNA] known for it’s beautiful landscape features, like 西湖 [west lake]…there’d be an international youth hostel set in the slums almost that’s nearly impossible to find and is in a very remote location that would be providing country and pop music from the states? [nor] who would think that this would be the first place i’ve been able to find solace—and semi-consistent internet—in awhile!?...’tis weird how things work. [funny, as i write this now, the internet is currently unavailable again…aggggggH, gotta love inconsistency.]
and so now…onto my first entry in over a week! this delay was originally due to the fact that i didn’t feel i had time to write quite as much as i had done on the 1st two entries. it quickly turned into the fact that i had pretty much no time at all to even think about sitting around and collecting any amount of thoughts and memories from my life’s happenings. so, luckily i have my old entries saved on here, so i’ll do my best to start somewhere near where i left off last time…
[sidenote: actually, as it turns out, this place’s lobby area [aka internet zone] shuts down at 12, so i’ve been kicked out and therefore kicked offline…sooo, looks like there’ll be no posting tonight. i could continue to write, however, i am actually getting pretty tired quickly…i just worked like…3 days ahead of schedule for chinese! ha…weirdo—but you’ll understand shortly. anyways, i think i’m gonna call it a night, at least for this thing—maybe i’ll organize/select some photos for upload whenever that becomes a possibility again. [or] i could listen to my audiobook. [or] i could read my other, real book. [or] i could just go to sleep like my body wants me to. regardless, i think i’m gonna call it a night for the blogging. tomorrow’s just as good—i mean, whatever i can possibly remember about the last week probably will not change too terribly much by tomorrow…well at least we can hope! anyways, goodnight for now…i’ll return soon. 晚安。。我会起来。
w/p
[卫朋]
1:07am…[Hangzhou] 02/21/09
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