Entry 4
Dear Journal,
I asked again and I remember what my Professor said the rent was. $600,000 US dollars a month. What the hell!? Now that’s like a 100,000 of their currency if I remember correctly but based on the salaries the majority of Chinese people get I don’t see how they do it. 100,000 rimimbi is still a lot even by American standards. How many Americans do you think live in apartments where the rent is $100,000 dollars a month. Uh… not many… I can tell you that. And usually the apartment spaces aren’t that big since they go by per square feet. Okay now they area we were riding through was a bit more uppity so that plays a role in the price but even so living in China isn’t like buying gum at candy store if ya catch my drift.
Yesterday I forgot to write about the Great Wall. I must have been really tired to forget about something so epic. We just do so much in one day that some stuff slips out. So yeah yesterday we climbed it and when I say it I mean like I made it to one watch tower and that was it. Hahaha there was no way I was climbing the whole thing. It’s over 4000 miles long man! That’s seriously amazing and I patted myself on the back for even making it as far as I did. And even though people were amazed at the Great Wall they were also amazed at me and my group as well. I don’t know if I already mentioned this or not but China is not a melting pot likee the US and you don;t really feel that until you actually go there. That’s when it hits you. Since we were foreigners we got a lot of attention…so basically people starred, pointed and took pictures. Lovely ( not). I hate pictures. I especially recieved an extra long glance or two because if you think white people are a rarity in Asia trying black people then add in the fact that I was wearing my natural hair and you’ve got yourself a regular freak show! I tried to ignore the stares, but it was so annoying. i wnated to turn around and as the on lookers if they had a problem but of course they wouldn’t understand me so there was no point. This Korean couple even stopped and talked to us and started posing with us. Strangely they didn’t want to take pictures with the Chinese students in our group. I guess they weren’t exotic enough but I kind of felt bad as they so blatantly tossed my Asian friends to the side. Not cool man. Most of the people who were starring I think had never seen a black person before so I guess I was their first….hm. So I kind of took their black people virginity in a way, right? Okay, maybe I’m the only one who thinks like this but I think its hilarious. I was their first and I always will be haha. I’ll write some more later. See ya until then.
P.S. That Swedish guy also mentioned that before carbon trading companies there were similar companies except with electricity. Cool, huh.
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