Just a few thoughts.....

1. When did Google take over Blogger? I'm sure a long time ago, but it seems like they own everything now, I should've jumped on that stock.

2. I'm currently in China. A country not known for it's hospitality (more like lack there of), and also for it's censorship. Everything I'm writing on this page is in Chinese; not my words, but all the other text. I can't read my own blogs, read others blogs, or read the comments left about my blogs. So for the next three months, you can hurl every insult in the world at me, but it won't matter, because I won't be able to read it. And where's the fun in that? The point of criticizing someone is so that they know you are criticizing them. So they get hurt. However, I look at it as for the next three months, "I'm rubber, you're glue...." anyway, the point of the saying is that I'm awesome and you suck.

3. Now for my real thoughts. I just recently thought to myself the other night, "I'm on an adventure right now, but there's something missing...." After some thought, I realized what was missing. I need to be on an adventure, and I want an old man to tell me, "THAT'S WHY IT'S AN ADVENTURE, MY BOY!" Now, I don't know what would make him say that, it would have to be something along the lines of me being unsure about the future, and then he would say that. I want him to be smoking a pipe when he says it too. So he sounds like he's talking out of the side of his mouth. Also, I want to be riding a horse drawn wagon with him when he says it. However, because of technological advances, this part may be hard to fulfill.

I figure I have like a four year window left for this dream of mine to occur. By then, I'll be 25, and all reference to me being a boy will be gone by then. So I have to hurry up. Also, some substitutions for the words may work as well. Like, "SONNY!" I don't know what else would work, I haven't thought that far ahead. But I definitely know "JUNIOR!" would not work. That seems condescending.

I've been thinking about this scenario all weekend. So, I've obviously thought about the possibility of this never happening to me. HOWEVER, I think I will say this to a boy when I'm an old man. And I think I want it to happen at the most inopportune time. I want to say it in the checkout line at Wal-Mart. I want to say it to the young clerk, and I want to be buying adult Depends, 6 cans of tomatoes, and velcro shoes. That way, he just thinks I'm senile.........but I know......I know........I just made his dreams come true. And someday, he will know too.

In all of my years.....

I've never seen a city like this. It's crazy. Everything you picture a city being, it is....

I arrived in Shanghai last week, and have found that I am in utter awe of this country. It's amazing. Downtown Shanghai is just as you see images of it being. Everything is neon, advertisments litter the building sides, and every building is taller than the next. I can't imagine just how this city was imagined. Buildings are put up in no time, workers work around the clock to finish a building. On Friday night workers were still building at 9 p.m. It's nuts.

I also find myself forgetting that I'm China. It's takes me walking out of my apartment to realize this. I hang out at a local coffee shop called "SPR Coffee." It looks just like Central Perk on the TV show Friends.

Breakfast sucks. I had to go to the local Wal-Mart (which I will write about at a later time) and I bought Cheerios and lunchmeat. The food is overrated.

But I'm loving my experience here, I'm learning more about the people of China everyday, which is why I came. During a taxi ride tonight, I found myself being comfortable with the idea of living here. Granted, I don't like being here with a group of 30 Americans, I can't wait to be on my own and discover and learn about this city and culture on my own.