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I went out and bought some dope Face masks today. Hello kitty, Moshi Moro* and a nice leopard skin one are my favorites, (I couldn’t find a Kikoman mask). So now when I’m wearng a mask it’s not because I want to be safe, it’s cause I have style.
It was beatiful day today and a lot of people were out on the street. I would say maybe 20 percent of the people had masks. I saw this official looking lady in a white coat going from store to store looking around ten putting up these little white signs. I asked my chinese friend what it means and she said it said that it meant the stores are free from diesease. That make me feel better. I’m sure that the lady in the white coat had a perfect SARS dector in her bag.
The schools here are freaking out. They closed most of the elementary and highshools and atthe colleges students are not allwoed to leave the gates. I tried to visit my firends university yesterday. They let me in, but then called up my friend 10 minutes later and made me come to the gate. At the gate, first they told me to sign a piece of paper. then they told me I had to leave the school. it really pissed me off, even though it is good of them to try to protect their students.
I’m to much of an ornery american to take this quarintine bullshit. I think I’m gonna leave soon. It is not outside the realm of possibility that one will not be able to fly out of china within the next few monthes. Though I am slightly afraid of getting the diesease, I’m more afraid of getting stuck here in the middle of a bad situation. The problem is there’s still stuff I want to do here, friends I want to see. Also if I make reservation for a flight two weeks from now who knows what will happen in that time?
*(Couldn’t find any good Moshi links, even though my students send me tem via QQ all the time must be an asian thing. The movies they send are actually pretty funny)