September 15, 2006

• China Blog: Day 21
  

  21:16 Beijing Time
  

  
  

  Phrase Of The Day: Ow…tui….bu….huai le… (Ow…Legs…no…worky….)

  Today was interesting, in an excruciatingly painful way, followed by an
  extremely pleasant one. Firstly, I had my first Tai Qi Quang class this
  morning. Now, unlike most of the other martial arty stuff I do, TQQ
  relies on me holdin muscles tense and moving very slowly. Being
  ludicrously unused to this, an hour’s lesson left me feeling like
  somebody had replaced my thigh and calf muscles with bags of porridge
  oats. They still hurt now.

  This may not be helped by the fact that I spent several fun hours wandering around Guilin Lu (again) mostly in the company of Fiona,
  who is just as awesome as her blog had suggested she would be. Not only
  is she irredeemably witty, an anime geek, and just a general all-around
  star, she even thinks she can find me a D&D group out here….This
  would be UBER amounts of brownie points if she can ^_^ Chez Geek:
  Export Edition has been too long without the sounds of merriment,
  dice-rolling and the rustling of character sheets.
  As well as possibly saving me from a whole year (maybe more) of sans-geekdom, she also showed me:

  • English DVD stores
  • Anime cafes
  • How To Not Find The Store You Want And Instead Wander The Backstreets Of Changchun
  • Funky English-chinese electronic dictionaries
  • A TRULY amazing coffee-house type place that would be perfect for marking/gaming/chilling.

  In all, it was a good afternoon, and I really look forward to hanging out with her again!

  Upon returning to our apartment, I was drafted into the weekly
  volleyball game. Haven’t played since I lived in Philly, so I was a bit
  rusty but, thankfully, it all came back to me by the end. The hard part
  was that every four or five plays, a squad of military-training
  Freshmen would invade our court, and, not being quite willing to
  withstand the might of the Red Army (Jr.) we let them have their way…

  Anyways, so much for going out boogiein’ tonight. I have been spared
  that fate by Christina not texting me, and Tom and Tracie being just as
  reluctant to visit the Mayflower as I am this evening. Tomorrow is
  another day at Guilin Lu, followed by a gathering in the evening (Where
  I will NOT be touching bai jiu, Korean alcohol, or anything with a strength of more than 5%) so I’m going to go, watch a DVD, then fade into unconsciousness.

  Zai Jian!

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