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Damn the bed in my room is way to comfortable, no way I needed that 4 hour nap, this afternoon, back to the tough job of being an english teacher in china.
Today is the last day of my break, I gotta start class again tommorow. It’s gonna be a pain to have to wake up before 8 consistently. But my break was prett good. First I went to Beijing, where I studied some chinese and found some cheap bars. I don’t understand why in our town there is no place to buy beer for less than 15 kuai, but in beijing I found a place that had a deal for 30 for all the beer you can drink. I geuss it’s cause all the working class people here just drink gallons of Baijiu, beer is like Soda to them. Maybe this is one of the reasons everyone thinks Henan is a hell hole. Everywhere I went when I told chinese people I came from henan (”thats HENAN, not Hunan, damn my chinese needs work), they told me something bad about the place.
Frist when I was in Beijing, the girl who was showing me around told me that she would never go to Henan because it was to dangerous. I asked her why she thought so and she said becasue it was full of diesease. A couple years ago there was a outbreak of AIDS in the blood supply here. Then I went down to Shnghai and most people didn’t know where Henan was, but those that did always wanted to know why I was working there. The worst was when I went to Hangzhou to visit John of sinosplice fame, (John’s fold out coach is very nice, I give it ***1/2). Since john can speak Chinese like Dashan, I got to know the true feelings of more people towards Henan. These ranged from “it is a den of theives” to “you ar very unlucky to have to work there.” I don’t think it’s souch a bad place, it’s where chinese civilization was founded. But I think I will carry a bit of Henan pride with me whereever I go.