Nike Boxing and realizations

So today was REAL low key. After dominating for a bunch of days even the "Spartans" have to rest. However, today Durrell and I along w/ Ben and some other Chinese guy whose name I don't remember went to see Olympic Boxing preliminary rounds. Some fights were real tight, while others were pretty wack. We watched a total of about 10 fights.



Later Money Marj, Durrell, Erica and I went to this Nike Exhibit open house kind of thing. I'm not goin to lie, it was real trendy cool type thing. There were people walking around with food and drinks that I ate and drank. I mean I felt important being there because it was somewhat exclusive, but it was kind of boring, I'm goin to just be honest. The upstairs part was REAL hot, literally and it was a short lived visit to that part of the club, exhibit thing.

The most important thing about about the day was the custom made shirt I picked up. It was one of the best shirts I've ever worn, pretty amazing. Please take note!

Life realizations/China realizations

1. Emily McKenzie is the shiznet and having her in my life is that hotness!

2. While China is amazing, I kind of wish I was in Atlantic City this weekend... Special shout out to RC and the rest of the crew!

3. Chinese men are pretty physical w/ women... I witnessed a man backhand his wife in the chest because she was complaining about walking up some stairs. (and no one even looked twice)

4. Chinese dogs look like little rats and avoid people, because apparently they are also treated pretty physically.

5. Having Ann around is like having navigation on my phone it is easy and convenient, but it has kept me from taking the training wheels off and properly learning how to negotiate in a country where I don't speak the language (AT ALL)

6. I'm goin to miss not having my travel buddy around next week... I might have to find her somewhere!

7. When you don't speak the language if you pretend that you don't hear people when they talk to you is a good way to avoid the awkwardness

8. Speaking of awkwardness, I think that my awkwardness is amplified when I don't speak the language... I know the prospect of that is scary (Imagine me trying to decide on tailor made pants and shirts, when I don't know what I want nor do I speak the language)

9. China is real cheap, and the food is real tasty, I think this is to the detriment of general cleanliness...

10. It's amazing how much you can pick up what people are talking about with context clues and physical cues.

For now... That's all

It started out so low key... I LOVE MY USA!!! These colors DON'T RUN!!!!!! but... zhongguo jiayou

So after dominating for two days "We" decided to rest. Or so we thought. As a whole it was low key, we did not do too much throughout the day the big stuff was at night! As the world witnessed last night was opening ceremonies. The day started out like all days with breakfast, We along w/ Durrell and Ben ventured over to a small place that was literally a hole in the wall. We ate dumplings and soup for breakfast. Now while I was slightly scared that this place could produce la duzi luckily everything is working fine with my digestive system. I sat around throughout the day, until opening ceremony time. A group of us USA's eventually made it over to the Workers Stadium, ( where soccer and boxing is not the birds nest where the ceremony was held). At the stadium about 1 million people (i'm exaggerating) met up outside the stadium. At first Nothing too crazy happened just watched with a bunch of people... until the USA walked into the stadium and was announced. Clearly we went crazy sang the national anthem and ran around. However, when China came up, we grabbed a Chinese flag ran to the front of the crowd and started up a zhongguo jiayou chant(which roughly translates into GO CHINA). There was a ton of news people taking pictures of us, and we were in the front of everything, makin it happen gettin it done. So there is a strong chance that Durrell and I are in some newspaper in the world representing China. I'm sure after last night there is no way that I will not be able to stay my full time in China. I think that posting pictures will give a better idea of how cool it was.

Don't question how much I love USA from these pictures, but I think that the Chinese needed a little help gettin "hyphy."





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