Tuesday August 8, 2006
Gone to China
Ok, so I haven’t gone to China, but Steve has. He left this morning (although, his flight to SF was delayed so who knows if he’ll get his luggage when he arrives in China).
Lucky, he managed to convince his company that they needed to send him out to China and South Korea to personally help them learn some aspects of their software. It’s not a cheap trip, so it’s very cool that they agreed. It’s probably the only way he’d go see Asia. I’m sure it will be quite the culture shock though, as he’s not a fan of asian cuisine. We’ll see if he comes back even thinner than he already is. ;)
Maybe I’d go there someday, although it is admittedly further down on my list, after more of Europe, and probably Australia/New Zealand, among others. Tokyo would probably be interesting, but I don’t forsee any large trips for the time being.
He said he might bring me back some mah jong tiles, so that would be cool! He’ll be gone for a week, so I suppose now’s the time to get caught up on my soaps and cleaning around the house! :)
Posted at 1:20 PM |
China is very foggy, hot, humid and smelly. Other than that it’s okay. Nobody here speaks very coherent English so I’m resorting to good old fashion sign language for a lot of transactions. I bought a coke today and through the translation of a calculator, I was told how much it cost. Coworkers claim to know English but it’s pretty broken. The upside is that it makes training these guys very easy because if they don’t understand, it must be a language issue, and not the working knowledge of the lecturer.
Authentic Mahjong boards run well over 60 dollars, so this game better be really fantastic. I don’t suppose getting the 5 dollar plastic ones wins me any points for thoughtfullness.
Thanks for the shout!
on August 12, 2006 @ 8:23 AM 
