...things goin' on

Ugh…so, sorry to my few, but loyal readers…but I just haven’t been updating like I should…

Plenty has happened, but I’ll keep it brief – just the highlights….let’s see…where did I leave off…Well since the last update, I’ve adjusted fairly well to life here in Dalian. Work’s been nuts…so busy, but really don’t have much to show for it, lol...we’re still about two months from being done (assuming things move much faster than they’re going now, lol). Fortunately, I’ll be headed back to the good ol’ US of A in November for *officially* the last of my GA Tech roommates to be married…yep.

Fun things to do in Dalian:
- make some local friends
- go shopping
- learn enough Chinese to help bargain with said shopping
- don’t pay more than 200 RMB for a fake Louis Vuitton…or else you’re a sucker!
- eat “fresh fish”…so fresh, they still have the oil from the refinery on them (see flickr)
- eat cow feet…don’t ask
- eat cow tongue…why not, right?
- go to a football game (pics on flickr…check ‘em out); be sure to go alone…stumble upon the crazy fan bus, get invited along, go nuts with 100 crazy fans…but be sure to be the only ones in the stadium cheering, lol
- visit the aquarium…in the rain. It’s more fun like that…helps you relate to the fish ;-)
- join an international church. Get asked to help out with worship. And lead the first bible study – but be sure that you let God let you lead the group a week late, so that you forget your notes and let Him take over…it’ll go better like that
- when some jerk says that a dvd cost 20 RMB when the price tag says 15 RMB, walk away, lol…you can get them for like 8 somewhere else
- buy some copy’d dvd’s
- buy some souvenirs for an old friend…..and some new ones.
- change your blogger account language setting from Chinese to English

And finally, do better about keeping up with folks back home...