The beginning

okay people, you knew it wouldn't take long, yes I've lost my first phone- lasted a whole 2 weeks, what a disgrace!
having an absolute ball tho. met all the vodka train people yesterday and went out on the piss with them last night. this joint we were at had 15 yuan jager bombs which is about $3, hence the lost phone!

the olympics was awesome! everywhere we went we were like celebrities to the chinese. they just loved it. They're all a lot cooler than most of the asians back in oz (no offence to anyone but its true) The after party for the opals silver medal was out of control! Singing true blue with steve waugh and john eales was definitely one of my life highlights- yes I am an aussie bogan! all the mens and womens b ball teams were there too which was pretty cool and free booze was another bonus!

The night life in beijing has been great! we just go bar hopping and meet randoms everywhere. Next thing you know its 8 in the morning and I'm asleep at the end of the train line....ouch. or  at the the cop station after falling asleep in a cab which was a bit of an awkward situation!

We partied with the dutch heaps at the heinekin house which is their official olympic house. They sure know how to party and when they win a medal they just go nuts! we weren't allowed in one night cos it was dutch only as they'd won a couple of gold so we managed to get under a fence and go in a back way then swapped out bright green and yellow singlets for some orange polo's with our new dutch mates and had an absolute belter of a night. The next morning I woke up in the dutch shirt and covered from head to toe in canadian fake tattoos which I was a little confused about. It turns out the canadians we were sharing a room with saw me walk in and collapse so went to town on me! The yanks unofficial house is the budweiser house which was athletes only but each athlete could bring in 1 friend so we'd just grab a random athlete and walk in and it was also free booze there too which you didn't see me complaining about. I've got plenty of photos but have had heaps of trouble uploading them but I'm hoping to sort it out tonight.

Went to the great wall the other day which was one of the best things I've ever done. I did this 10km hike along it then at the end there's a big flying fox to get down which was awesome. There was this pommy in our tour group who was real crack up and I was chatting to him on the way there, then next thing you know we'd been going about half an hour and I look back and he had this asian lady fanning him while he was spewing his guts out- it was brilliant!

Anyways people, thats about it from me as I'm boarding the much anticipated 'vodka train' in a couple of hours so hopefully all my training should get me through! hope all is going well back in the land of oz. Miss you all!

Bren / chick