I Can Feel the Pressure

Greetings from the Other side of the world. The weather is lovely here in the future. Nothing to particularly exciting has happened that I can tell you about. Well, nothing that you can do anything about at least. I kind of like the whole me being in the future thing though. I feel like if I paired up with someone from home, we could have a superhero thing going on. How awesome would that be?

There is a good reason I didn't post a blog yesterday. Nothing interesting happened. Well, not too interesting. The highlight of my day was having to sit through an almost 2 hour long movie, in Chinese, called Cellphone. It was the story of two best friends, who both had mistresses. (There was some serious advertising going on for Motorola, as well.) Both of them continuously used their cellphones, and both of them got caught in the end. It was such a weird story. The moral that I got was that if you are ever going to cheat on your significant other, get another cellphone, and make sure that you only use that one to communicate. Otherwise, you are screwed.

I am still not entirely sure what was going on. As far as I can tell, no one in the room really knew what was going on, except that each of the guys had WAY too many women to juggle. My god, I have no idea how they did anything else, honestly. Even with subtitles, I still couldn't understand it. Definitely not one of the best movies that I have ever seen.

Today had much of the same frustrations. Our textbook was talking about how Chinese college students view America. While that sounds simple, I am sure, the grammer, and many of the words that we used, were not simple. By the end of the day, I was exceedingly frustrated. My poor one on one teacher. She must have thought that I was on the brink of mental instability.

There was a special occasion today though. One of the economics professors at the college that we are at came to talk to us. The topic of his speech was "You Can't Understand China Without Understanding China's Countryside." He is apparently very well known, often advising the people in government on topics regarding China's development. But none of this made any difference as soon as he opened his mouth. Sure, I understood some of it, but lets be serious here. When someone opens there mouth, and starts speaking at a mile a minute in a language that is not the one that you grew up with, it will take a while to understand. Thankfully, there was a person there who translated what he said into simpler Chinese, and sometimes even into English! I would call that a win.

But even with the language problems, he was still very interesting to listen to. He had some fantastic ideas about how to help the country progress, and how to shorten the distance between standards of living in the cities and in the country sides. It really got me thinking. Recently, I have realized that I really want to work in China, and be a part of this country for the rest of my life. I also want to be able to do my part to help bring China into development. A lot still needs to be done before China can be considered developed, and I want to do my part in helping make this happen. Who knows how, but it will happen. Maybe I will go to Med School. Maybe I won't. I have time to decide.

Sorry, my stories today are not quite as interesting and sarcastic as normal. I'm sure that my posts will continue in that vein soon enough. Until then, enjoy yourselves! It's summer people, get out and experience the weather.

All my love.