deep breath.

Okay disregard my bitching, im working with it. Chinese is better, fo sho...still have some kinks to work out in order to make sense some times but on the whole i am largely communicative here. Andrea's going away thing is tonight, sad day. On the upside my new phone takes great pics which i can now upload effectively because my memory card and sim actually function now, in an fugly phone, but nonetheless. Also i learned something awesome in mandarin..
Basically because there are four tones, saying the word "ma" can mean either mother, hemp, horse, or scold, so...because of this ridiculous and unique addition to this language, we can say things like this and make sense...the numbers delineate tone

MaMa1 qi ma3 , Ma man, MaMa1 ma4 ma3

MaMa qi ma Ma man Mama ma ma

...if you can beleive it this translates to..

Mother rides horse, Horse slow, Mother scolds horse.

I know, I know.

also id like to call attention and paralell to things like this, thanks natey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

Ive been having a lot of really strange really crpytic dreams involving very physical things, i have theories as to what they mean. First the one one about me drawing my own blood and liking it, but being ashamed of other people knowing i like it. Somehow this means something. Also i had a dream that my younger sister was pregnant and then had an abortion and then was pregnant again and she was telling me about it at this wedding for someone i didnt know and we were in the 80's but in our 20's. There have been other small strange ones but those are the ones worth mentioning. I wish i had brought my dream analysis book by carl jung to china. That would be some good reads right now. O well, ill just stick to "how language works" and "speaking of chinese" for now. I forget the authors right now.

The weather today is gorgeous, if only it would last, i know it wont though, the rain here is certain.

Next on the docket... Hangzhou, Tokyo, Hong Kong, TX! HOME!

getting excited, getting lost,

j.