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HI everyone i just came back from china! it's not that late here yet plus i'm jetlagging so my body thinks it's 10 in the morning right now and i still haven't unpacked but i just read all your posts and i must say i love all of you and china was amazing! first off rae that dream sounds so nice and i would love to go to the beach right now :D plus angie we all heard about the vt shooting in china and everyone was so freaked out, and i totally know what you mean about that stereotyping thing. like a few weeks ago there was this asian supremacist who published an article in a chinese newspaper called "why i hate black people" and it caused a huge stir in california or something and it just kind of made me mad and sad how the minor government figures were all kind of criticizing the entire chinese community there, but then again you know what no one in a single group of people is always entirely "the same" like stereotypes say so people who think all koreans are violent should just get over it.

to add onto the whole perspective thing i definitely gained a lot of it over in china, we visited this slightly poverty-stricken town and a lot of stuff just blew me away. like there are some kids at that middle school who are so poor that they can't even afford to go home from school so they basically live there all 7 years, and a lot of them live in towns far away that are so poor that they don't even have middle schools. plus there was a huge lake which was a fishermen's community where all the fishermen and their families lived in these TINY, squalid one-room wooden plank houses in the middle of the water, and their kids were so dirty that their faces were pretty much cracked and brown. (OOH! fun fact to interrupt with, one of the girls who came was named lily and she was in the crafting the essay class in session 2 with amanda, and she knew the molly & ned game if any of you remember, the one we played like the first day of class it was really cool :D) anyway i guess i have too much to say to say it all here so i'm going to post later with pictures hopefully :)

plus on the planeride there i lost my ipod! i have had my ipod for like 2 years and i really miss it now, at the time i just kind of got over it because i didn't want it to ruin the trip or anything but now i wish i just paid more attention for once and didn't lose everything (i lost a bunch of other stuff like meds and lotions and my contacts) but, to take a stab at being optimistic i've decided i'll just take my discman around now and burn mix cds so it'll be similar to my ipod. =) well ok i really need to unpack and shower and get to sleep, i'm going to be SO tired tomorrow in school lol soooo good night chickies (and guys) i'll definitely post later =)

tons of love,
geena