entering MAINLAND CHINA
Thursday, November 9th, 2006(YES THIS POST IS FROM A TIME PERIOD BEFORE THE LAST ONE)..get used to it!
So, after a beautiful & efficient train ride from Hong Kong through the New Territories one arrives at the border. Signs at places say things like “No turning around” and i queued under a sign that says “FOREIGNERS” and there are a few guards but its not so ominous otherwise. Crossing over i followed directions to the bus station…and a new kind of chaos that i encounter everywhere i go.
Not to mention my first chinese bathroom…Not so bad except for the wetness everywhere, especially the floor. A wall for pissing…No Big Deal. But i had to do other matters to attend to. Which meant entering…short walled booths with no doors in which one crouches over the 10 inch deep, 8 inch wide communal tunnel that runs beneath said booths. As you hold yourself there, trying to maintain balance AND NOT TOUCH ANYTHING ANYWHERE, one can behold the delight that is person behind you’s shit that is slowly working its way down the trench, pushed along by the barest minimum of water necessary…
The sleeper bus is quite fun…in order to make room for an extra row or two, the top third of the body is elevated at 30 degrees or so, more of a recliner really. And one sleeps soundly here-swimming in the pungent dreams that arise from having someone elses socked feet beneath ones head. i slept on and off, the bus departing at night and making its way through three hours of continous cities of factories & apartment towers, this run on sentence giving you an idea what it was like. City gave way to countryside, and i awoke to a burning smell & sure enough we stopped at a roadside repair shop where a kid not older than 15 fixed the truck, at first illuminated by my headlamp until they decided to get an auto lamp from the shop 5 feet away. 
Finally dawn came and i got a better look at China. The drama! The excitement! The concrete! 
AND NOW…. MY FIRST VIDEO!!!!
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