Well...

[Talys]

So, uh...I'm going to China for ten days with my band for a pre-Olympic festival...So yeah...I leave at four in the morning tomorrow...Adios.

[Kazuya]

have fun =o

[Celena]

That's awesome.

[Dehan]

I'd appreciate it if you bring me back a woman who looks like Misa Misa from Death Note. Thank you buhbye.

[Talys]

I'll see what I can do...

I've decided that my best bet is to just not sleep tonight...we have to call our group leaders at 3:30 am and I just had an eight shot espresso at work...I may die.

[Talys]

Alright...well, I'm leaving soon...ciao folks.

[Tamsin]

China is incredible. Have fun.

[Kaden]

That sounds sweet. Have fun.

[Talys]

Ok, I'm back...it was a great experience.

[Celena]

Did you bring Dehan back Misa Misa?

[Talys]

Nah, but I did see some pretty cool stuff...and I'm still confused as to Chinese traffic laws...or lack there of.

[Talys]

So decided to finally put pictures up.

Me, my brother, and our friend Emily on the plane. (I'm in back.)



Shot from the plane...we flew up to within 150 miles of the north pole and back down...this is close to Siberia.



We did a cultural exchange with the students of the English department of a college in Cheng-de...I'm not in this room, so don't look for me in back...it was right after a show, hence the half uniforms.



Portion of the wall we visited...the top goes way past where you can see...I made it up there though, felt great the next day. [/sarcasm]



Again, a little higher up.



We saw a Peking opera.



Again.



The band.



At this point I start stealing photos from a different person, so order is messed up...not that there was one in the beginning.

Casey, Ben, and I at a Buddha temple...I look odd in this pic.



Drummers make cute couples.



Another class room...



Cool bridge...I think this was at the Summer Palace.



You can't do shit at the temple.



Bird Nest Stadium where the Olympics will be held.



What we dubbed "Squat-a-pots".



Contortionists at an acrobatics show we saw.



Again.



A little more homo-erotic, but still impressive.



Again.



Again.



Spiny things.



She's actually standing straight.



Meh, good enough for now.

[Kaden]

That's awesome. Looks like a pretty awesome time.

[Jack]

whats up with those toilets? Those aren't modern models are they?

[Talys]

It's what their culture evolved into...there were some really high end Squat-a-pots and a lot of establishments had western style toilets...a bit alarming at first, but what happens happens.

[Ashe]

That looks awesome, I wish I was in whatever took you there.

(The toilets... Something brings the image of Asian people sitting cross legged or hovering over them while meditating and using them to catch their poo)

[Waffuru]

whats up with those toilets? Those aren't modern models are they?

Yeah, they're totally modern. They are quite common in Asia and outside of the Americas. They're called Squat toliets.

edgeucate urself

[Mr. Zhu]

Lol.... He wiki'd that shit..
Love the pics, I would so want to go to China again >.>..

[Talys]

So, uh, I just wanted to remind everyone and myself what a great once in a life time experience this was...But I'm doing it again...? Apparently the Choir I auditioned for at my school and was accepted into it going to China in May...crazy...

[Pinky]

I hope that wasn't smog in those landscape pictures, but with the over-industrialized economy China is building it's hard to tell.

I also noticed the no-dugs symbol on that temple ban list. If you can't take opiates on sacred grounds anymore then this is not the China of yore that I've read about.