a blog i can access:

http://galleryoftheabsurd.typepad.com/

mo' eatin'.

my cousin nina is back in beijing. on sunday night we went out for sichuan food. and then dessert. pictured above is the strawberry ice cream nina ordered. it came complete with watermelon chunks, oranges slices, whipped cream, and pringles.

but the eating didnt end there. on tuesday there were chicken sandwiches from a kiosk off of sanlitun. on wednesday nina and her roommates fixed a feast of spring rolls w/ peanut sauce, salad, and chicken soup. and then last night at a place in wudakou was the biweekly assembly of the beijing burger club (bbc).

foiled, again.

i can write, still. but i cant read, again.

this made the whole internet situation here a lot clearer for me.

fengzheng.

today i spent an hour on the bus with my cousin and her boyfriend to get to longtan park. where we spent about fifteen minutes trying (unsuccessfully) to get our kite to fly. and then the next hour trying to get it out of a tree.

chun tian. (spring.)

the five italian girls from my class left to go home today. its sad. they were fun. (and spoke english...) but. im not letting that get me down.

today i posted more letters. and after visiting the post office returned to the purple bamboo park. (pictured above). very pretty. and only a matter of days, i would imagine, before everything is in full bloom.

when i got back i got a call from the koreans. six of us took two cabs crosstown to a hot pot restaurant. it was my third and best hot pot experience thus far. if cooking our own food in eensy little hot pots wasnt fun enough, there were three dessert courses: deep fried sesame balls filled with red bean, deep fried bread with condensed milk, and the milk popsicles.