I didn't bring my camera with me to China so it sucks that I don't have like any pictures but here are some things I saw/learned/experienced during my 6 weeks in Guangzhou, China. (I'm writing this with one week still left) Oh and some WTF IS GOING ON Stories...that I don't understand till now.
- Lets start off with the most important thing. Girls. Girls in Guangzhou are gorgeous. Yea, way different from last time I visited China. I went to Huangzhou last year and wow, species up there man. And all the girls have HUGE butts. I don't get it? Is it the rice they eat? The water they drink? That may be kinda offensive to some of you but if you came here you'd notice too!
- Hong Kong is fashion central. Everyone there dresses like they a celebrity and crap. It's insane. Girls are pretty, and they speak english, double werd.
- My dad assigned english names to all his employees but one of his female employees named herself RAIN LOLOL AFTER THE KOREAN SINGER GAY MAN BI. I thought that was kinda cutely gayyyy
- Hong Kong has Emo people. But they dress in madd expensive EMO clothing haha? What kinda emo kid rocks 300 dollar jeans..
- How Cheap is Guangzhou? 2 McChickens, 2 large fries, 2 large cokes, and a 6 piece nuggets is ONE FREAKIN DOLLAR WHOAAAAAAA haha. Check out that dollar menu.
- I didn't see ONE obese person in China yet. America I see em everyday.
- Average salary for a waiter/waitress here? 100 dollars a month...haha yeap. That's even at the EXPENSIVE GOURMET RESTAURANTS like PIZZA HUT. Wtf? Yea Pizza Hut is a NICE restaurant here and very expensive for Chinese standards. They have so much seafood there and noone eats pizza with their hands. I ate calamari for appetizer (lol) and was forced to eat pizza with a knife and fork.
-You guys have NO idea what HEAT is until you come here. It's a SAUNA outside everyday even at night....
- Chinese people love koreans and hate the Japanese. Every taxi driver asks me what race I am and when I tell them Korean or Han Guo Ren, they get all excited and tell me how much Chinese people like koreans and how Japanese people were evil for invading both of our countries. I also learned that ten years ago there was a LOT of Japanese people in Guangzhou and now there are only few remaining..why? Cuz they get hated on so much lol. They simply just moved out. It sucks for them but I guess it shows how significant HISTORY plays a role in today's society. The past shapes the future.
-Those crazy cool glass bottles of coke are ten cents each.
- learning chinese...sigh. Problem? I learn by myself and look up words that I think I would use everyday. I learned about 300 vocab words during my stay here so I can get around by myself now. Problem is I don't know grammar and the order in which I have to say the words so sometimes people dont' understand me :(
- Guangzhou is the ultimate SHOPPING city. It's insane...they seperated the city into different parts. One section of the city sells only watches. Another section only underwear/bras. Another section only hats. Another section only denim. It's so organized and shopping is always fun especially when you see like 200 dollar jeans (in america) for ten bucks!
- I saw a Chinese clothing store called "Boyz II Men". I couldn't stop laughing.
- WTF Story #1: I was walking to the grocery store near my apartment here to get some popsicles(werd!) and passed by a construction site where they were making a new building. Anyways I see all these men working and then I see a few like 10 year old boys with those iron masks on and a blowtorch in their hands....WTF? They were molding like pieces of steel together. Ok my ten year old cousin has trouble throwing a baseball. When I was ten i think I was getting potty trained and learning the names of colors. Apparently Chinese 10 year olds here create skyscrapers....wow
- I went on a missions trip here with The Korean Church of Guangzhou...
1.) I lived in the mountains for a week. I had to hike up 2 hours up a steep ass mountain but on the way I felt like Tom Cruise from the Last Samurai. That town they go to in the mountains looked EXACTLY like the one I was going to..cept this town was like ten times worse. Your so high up and theres no city lights so I saw like BILLIONS of stars. Never saw a sky at night that was half black and half white. (No Joke)
2.) I slept with the chickens...nice
3.) They eat 4 times a day and their skinny as hell. I was so scared of every meal..why? Cuz they feed you so much. THey are SO generous. I was basically forced to eat like 7 bowls of rice every meal. The halmunee there was so agressive/shady. She kept putting rice into my bowl...wtf mate. I'm full as hell lol. When I REALLY tell her I can't eat anymore and turn to the side to talk to someone and turn back, my bowl is full again with rice. YOU SNEAKY HALMUNEE! Everytime she reached for the wooden rice spoon scooper thing my heart would stop and I would twitch a few times. Scaryness to the max.
4.) This missions trip and church brought me out of the worst slump in my faith so I'm glad. I actually believe again. NOICE
- WTF STORY #2: Ok so I'm on a four hour bus ride from Kunmin to Da Yao(from here we had to walk up the mountain). Anyway so on the way there we pass by madd cities and towns and would take bathroom breaks here and there. We stopped by this one small town and I got out to use the bathroom. I was walking to take a piss when I saw this baby crouched on the sidewalk. This kid was wearing a wife beater and NO pants. A hunting knife in his left hand, and a perfectly peeled apple in his right hand. WTF?!?! I SWEAR he was around 4-6 years old. I just stopped and stared at him. what a THUG. This kid used a freakin like hunting knife the size of him to peel an apple(PERFECTLY) for himself to munch on HAHAHAHA. On top of that he's wearing a wife beater and NO PANTS LOLLL. I could so picture him saying to me "Wtf you looking at?!?! Nigga I don't need pants. I do what I want." Anyways this kid scared me after seeing how skilled he was with his knife so I quickly fled the scene. HAHAHA Best thing I ever saw!
- I saw this halabuhjee in the subway wearing baggy ass jeans with one pant leg folded up to his knee. HAHAHAHAHA I was like DAMN even CHina got some O.G. Thugs!
- The best samgyupsal is NOT in korea, LA, or Nyc. It's in Guangzhou China at my dad's friends restaurant. This place is SO amazingly nice and 1 Order of Samgyup Sal = 5 dollars! I ate here twice a week hahahaha. SOO GOOOD. And they use a charcoal grill so the meat tastes 10x better!
- WTF STORY #3 Ok I was going around with one my dad's employees and saw some more gangster kids. Alot of the lil kids hear rock pants with a bigass hole where there ass is. So you see their bare ass and crap. It's easy for them to pee and stuff which is why the hole is there. Anyways so I see these two lil kids and then take a squat on the sidewalk and start peeing in front of everyone! HAHAHAHA WTFF. And noone like cares? I was like WEHERE AM I WHAT IS GOING ON. ME WANT GO BACK AMERICA And the lil kids just kept on pissing. "This is my town son! I piss where I want" HAHAHAHA chinese kids...gotta love em.
- Driving in China is crazy. I was with my dad's driver going to one of his factories and he made a wrong turn. So what does he do? He goes back on a ONE WAY highway and drives in the OPPOSITE direction. I'm like peeing my pants and im like WHO IS THIS GUY?! Anyways we drive for like 3 miles in the opposite direction and cars just move out of the way for us??! They didn't even HONK or anything they just moved over and let us keep going in the opposite direction...somethings I REALLY don't understand here...really.
- There are 10,000 Koreans living in the city of Guangzhou. whoa! And also MADD foreigners here cuz its the hotspot for business right now.
Ok I Have like a billion other stories but this entry is already long as hell. The others I'll tell you guys later in person or something. Overall this trip to China was amazing. I learned SO much about the garment business. I made a pair of my own jeans! DOPE! And I made madddd connections.
Just about ten days left till I go back to America. I'm writing this entry in my OFFICE at Samsung! haha I'm actually working at Samsung this week to learn about the trading business and how they operate here. Today is my first day and they already setup an office for me with my own computer, telephone number, and fax machine HAHA I don't know why I need all that but I don't know its a cool feeling having your own office already on ur first day. Especially at a big company like Samsung
Can't wait to go back to America and speak ENGLISH to someone! On subways and in restaurants I just randomly talk to people who speak English. I've had madd interesting conversations with people from Nigeria, the Middle East, Morocco, Germany, France, Russia EVERYWHERE! This place is crazy! OH and this african american kid I chill with once in a while is from Jersey City! How insane is that! He knows where Fort Lee is! haha.SEE YA'LL SOONNNN ZAI JIEN!
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I just started today, teaching thirty 4-year old children english. And wow I do not wan't to become a teacher. They all cute and crap but they have no discipline. These two kids (one boy and one girl) started fighting while I was going over the damn alphabet and I made them stop and make up. Anyways I thought everything was chill and I saw the boy lean in (I thought he was going to give her a kiss haha awwww) But this little mofo(lol jp) freakin bites her ear. WTF? Who bites people's ears when they get into fights (Oh yea Tyson) but still it was madd crazy. So she starts wildin out and crying and then other kids start crying and then all the mothers get involved and then chaos breaks loose. Damn I wanted to start crying too. And in the end everyone looks at me...like expecting me to do something... wth? What am I supposed to do. It wasn't my fault I was just singing the damn ABC song....on top of that they give me the workbooks YESTERDAY. SO last night I was up all night planning a 2 hour lesson plan which I only got through half of. Whack sauce
Last week in China and it's the most stressful/difficult. And interning here sucks ass. All I do is read about the company all day.(Boring stuff) But at least we eat good food :) | 
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