Well since I have not heard back from anybody yet about the movies, which I can see and supposedly nobody else can see, I just went ahead and posted three more. However I am also going to include the vimeo urls so you can go to their website and see the videos there if you can not see them here. This would all be so much easier if China did not ban website, but alas they do, so get out your pens and start writing
http://vimeo.com/6453741
http://vimeo.com/6452816
http://vimeo.com/6452757
http://vimeo.com/6444531
http://vimeo.com/6444507
Now on the Vimeo site you will notice 7 videos, the untitled ones uploaded badly and I just haven't taken the time to figure out how to delete them. So do not watch them. Prepare to wait, especially for some of the long ones, it was almost a 20 minute wait for me. That could also be because I am on crappy Chinese DSL internet. I will be posting more videos on the Vimeo site, so if you want to save yourself some time feel free to bookmark it. I can only post 500mbs a week though while using the free service. That sounds like a lot, but I have one clip that is like 20 minutes almost and is 850mbs. However that clip is comic gold if I do say so myself, I have watched it like three times and I laugh every time. So I will do my best to get that to you guys somehow.
So a few questions I need to answer:
1.) Yes I do indeed get the whole month of January off, and no I will not be coming home. For two reasons the most important I have only a single entry visa, which I already used. The second, is it would be ridiculously expensive and a pain in the butt, considering I am in a city with no easy airport access, the nearest one is a 5 hour train ride away. You can make fun of the Dayton Airport all you want but trust me it is ridiculously convenient. Consider that in the state of Ohio we have just over 11.3 million residents, with 5 international airports and 170 public airports of various sizes. That is one international airport for every 2.26 million Ohioans, a very good ratio compared to some other larger population states. Now Hubei province has a population of a little over 59.5 million people, over 5 times that of Ohio. Now Wuhan, the capitol of Hubei is one of the 10 largest airports in China, and it is also the most modern and largest in Central China. However Hubei contains 4 civil airports and one for both military and civil use, of course Wuhan would be the only one considered an International airport, but that aside Hubei has the same number of airports as Ohio for 5 times as many people. Don't even get me started on square footage of each area and location as it relates to convenience for egress, I only get one hour to write these things.
2.) It has been suggested that I may be doing things which would be frowned upon by the Chinese government. Rest assured that I am not doing anything illegal and am not planning on doing anything illegal anytime soon. Unless of course you consider the consumption of copious amounts of dumplings to be illegal, then by mean all means deport me. Because if I cannot have steamed dumplings than what would be the point of being in China.
3.) Some people are concerned about whether or not I am making friends, I want to put all your minds at ease by saying that I am absolutely doing no such thing. First off we can't count Lily, I mean it's her job to be my "friend", that's like thinking the waitress at Waffle House at 2:30 a.m. really cares what you have to say. Shes been dealing with drunk morons all night retard you really think what you are going to say something new and enlightening that she has not heard yet, "Ladonna". Second the other foreign teachers do not count either. That's like saying the professor, Mary Ann, Gilligan, the millionaire and his wife were all friends. No they weren't they were stuck together on a desert island with nobody else to talk to,in the States they would never have any reason to communicate. That's is not to say Finn and Luke aren't genuinely nice people who have helped me a lot, but they really had no choice in the matter I just showed up one day. I live in the same building, I work at the same job, and oh yeah I'm one of like 7 Americans in the city so you kinda have to be genial to each other. So that encompasses the majority of my personal contacts everyday, unless we count the dumpling lady and the lady that sells me bottles of water at the corner store. So put your minds at ease I spend most of my days alone in my apartment yearning for human contact, but afraid to seek it out.
4.) This one dovetails kinda of nicely with number 3, no I do not have like 7 girlfriends. I will highlight three interactions I have had with women. First I was told by a Chinese girl that she thought my beard was very beautiful with all the different colors. So of course seeing as how tat scared the crap out me, literally ask the guy who cleans the McDonald's restroom, I went out like the next day and had it shaved off. Second I was asked by two women how much I weighed, so after I converted it to kilograms for them (its the metric system, only in American are we arrogant enough to use our own system that NOBODY else in the world uses, oh and its an easier system to use too), their response could have been: "Well you look much skinner than that" "Oh, you are like a slightly heavy version of Brad Pitt.", but instead I got a gasp of surprise, widening of the eyes followed by "That's very unhealthy." Jeez thanks you think so, I couldn't figure that out what with the wheezing every time I go up a flight of stairs, or the soreness in my knees after 5 minutes of light activity, or of course the fact that I pay a very nice Doctor in American to tell me the same thing in American every 6 months, so I can do nothing about it. third would be at a lovely meal where I was asked if I had a girlfriend or had been married yet as if to suggest I was already married and divorced, which of course seemed perfectly logical to them and slightly derogatory to me. Then later I just realized that happens like 50% of the time in American so they had a 50/50 shot at being right. So of course I answered with a resounding no, then of course launched into a 20 minute diatribe about quitting women 3 years ago cold turkey and how it has made my life better. Most of you have heard this before but needless to say the one Chinese male was flabbergasted at my thoughts and is still unsure even to this day about what I was talking about. The women spent the whole laughing at me and at the end both remarked that they thought I was good looking. To which I responded with a thanks and a "well they are just being polite I am really not that good looking." To which I received the reply, "Well the Chinese find it best to always be polite and courteous in all situations, Even when they are lying to your face to make you feel better, but really they think you are a fat fat cow" I added the italics by the way, that is what we call the subtext of the conversations or the unspoken meaning of their comments. So in short no I am just as bad if not worse with Asian women than with American women. Looks like my streak will be hitting 4 years soon, Woo hoo. No if you will excuse me I'm going to go cry my self to sleep on the thing I call my bed.
