Liam's diary of China

Diary entry number Fourteen (Life is great!)

I am love, but I am useless.

Things are good, things are great. China has KFC after all, and as much as I
dislike it in England it's surprisingly refreshing here. The grease in the
chicken isn't as bad as the grease they seem to like in EVERY SINGLE PIECE
OF FOOD THEY MAKE HERE. Even salad has grease. Jees.

Where I am now they are a lot less used to westerners. Practically everybody
looks at us for extended periods of time. People do comic double-takes.
People are idiots around us.

I found actual orange juice, and tropical juice. 100% stuff. I wouldn't
drink that stuff in England very often because my mum thought it was too
expensive. But still milk is a problem, they're really big on soy milk here,
which is disgusting and sour. It looks just like milk, which if anything is
bad for the taste because you subconsciously expect it to taste like milk
too. No cereal either, although I know that cereal exists here in China.

We went to a nightclub on Saturday. Paid 5 Yuan to get in, and it was empty.
We left laughing.

We spent the weekend in town, staying at a fancy hotel like I always seem to
do here. We actually got our own toilets here. Nice. Also a fake shower
which was apparently just for show. There were communal showers, which I
can't seem to escape, which was my first one for nine days straight.

They sell English albums here for just over a pound. I bought Radiohead 'Kid
A', Smashing Pumpkins 'Dawn til dusk' and a Beethoven collections. I fell
asleep listening to a loop of Moonlight Sonata watching how the ceiling fan
seemed to spin out of sych with it's own shadow.
Prostitutes ring you while you stay at a hotel. This can't be good for three
curious adolescent males. I've heard stories of guys back at the other
academy who would make the most of their stay in that way.
AND HERE ARE THEIR NAMES:

Nah, I kid.

I giggled like a schoolgirl when the whore rang up. I'm far too shy for
things like that.

I'm planning to head to Hong Kong later on in the year with my new friend
Andrew who listens to good music and has a lot of gas. And there's still my
trip to Japan to think about. It's all a matter of visa's and whether I need
one to get to these places, and if I can get one here.

Ho hum.

Ok, It's been about 3 months. I'm buying an Xbox dammit. A man has needs.

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