It is 1:52 am and what a beautiful night here in Guangzhou! You know how i know it’s so nice out…? Cuz i was out till 11:30. Know why…? Cuz we had training today. And when i say “training” what i really mean is 12.5 hours of… Chinese. I’m wondering if any of you as readers can empathize with such a conundrum: listening to 12 hours of gibberish. The fact that I made it out of there with my sanity is solely due to my awesome coworkers!
They attempted to translate for me… for a little bit. Then they got bored, gave up and either struggled to stay awake or said, “nuts to it all” and started to doodle in my notebook. All-in-all, it was actually quite fun from then on. We played a few games that utilized our awesome teamwork capabilities and laughed like children the whole time. My coworkers have become some of my best friends here! We’ve got inside jokes and favorite songs and we just get along like family. I don’t know how I’ll handle saying goodbye to them… 😦
To wrap up this… training… we watched a movie. Pretty cool, huh? Oh, wait… yeah it was in Chinese too. Not as cool as I’d hoped. But, hey, now i can say i watched a Chinese movie while living in China! *check*
After it was all over, Chris, Cookie and I went out for pizza and Dr. Pepper. I proceeded to get in trouble for bringing the good Doctor drink into the restaurant and opening it… apparently that’s frowned upon. Who knew?
Dinner with them is always fun and I’m really going to miss these times! Chris leaves for Beijing in two weeks… 😥 So sad. I will cry. It will not be a fun goodbye. You’d think I’d be used to it by now…

Nope. Not used to it…

Walking back to the metro i crossed paths with a group of middle aged white guys… about seven or eight of them… and as i passed, all i could think was, “that was a lot
of cologne.” The end.

PEACE