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Big lip Bloomer

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Here is my big lip after the Shaolin Basketball incident. After it happened I felt like what I imagine it is to have a dose of Botox. Nice (There was a better picture but it got all mixed up so I’ll save that one for the UK return Slide Show! oooh!
It’s a lot smaller now, if a little scabby from the cold. Again, nice.
Since then we played Basketball one more time yesterday… it must be the season here… well it is China – anyone’s guess!
Will publish any other nice bruises for you… something to look forward to I’m sure.

Zhengzhou snow!

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Hi everyone,
I woke up this free Sunday morning to discover snow!
Snow
I went down early to one of the training hall to do some yoga. I really felt like having a good stretch without the incouragement to bounce by the teachers. Whenever we are stretching and a teacher comes close I pretend to bounce but as soon as they go away I go straight back into yoga style! Yee-haw!
Anway, after yoga and a bit of breakfast, we got together and organised who was going to the city. Beofre we left I took some pictures of the school in the snow. Of course it’s not normally this white, it actually looks clean here, so lucky really. It’s preparation for the photos to come of the not so whiter than white version.
Here they are…
Around the school:
Front Gate
Main Office building
Kung fu Wall painting
Training Hall 1
Stephen (my room-mate) and my room:
My Bed
Toilet – just moved in, need to clean

We got a slow cab into town and to the massage place where everyone normally goes on Sunday. I got an acupressure massage, and the doctor knew all the right places to get me whincing. No, it was really good and he was very nice. I think it would be better if I knew some Chinese though so that we could maybe communicate something more than the occasional laugh and flinch. There were some points that were very tender and I’m sure he could have told me why. Nevermind. Next time I want to try some cupping… this treatment sounds like you should have to cough at the same time but I assure you it’s not like that.
Normally everyone goes to an all-you-can-eat restaurant after massage but because I had to wait, I went to the supermarket an then came here to the biggest internat cafe I have ever seen. Smoky and full of game-playing, film-watching teenagers!

May add some more soon
Ciao for now x

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That Friday feeling

Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Hi y'all. Feeling a lot more up beat now and enjoying myself. I made a big realisation that all this Shaolin malarky (?) is actually just choreography. If I wanted I could learn it anywhere to a certain extent. So this makes ... [Continue reading this entry]

Too cool for School

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
So I did get the right train. And I did arrive in Zhengzhou. And I did wait out side the station for over an hour and wonder where somebody was to pick me up. And I had my doubts and ... [Continue reading this entry]

Zhengzhou Yo!… NO!!

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Last night I went to the station in plenty of time... about 3 hours to spare in actual fact. Nodded a bit in one of the massive waiting rooms of Beijing Station. About 2o minutes before the train left I ... [Continue reading this entry]