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I’ll be coming back flying United, but it’s my birthday! I can celebrate my birthday on the plane!

I went to Wal-Mart here. It’s the kind of slick inner-city store you’d expect from the leader in putting other stores out of business. It’s a two story store in a big mall in a big shopping district in a big city. Of course, all the stuff they sell is suited for China.

I tried going to a “web bar” and they wouldn’t let me in becuase I wasn’t old enough (it’s suppsed to be only 18+). Last time I went it was a different person watching and she let me use a comp. This time the person said that the government was doing inspections today, and they didn’t want to be caught.

We changed our plane ticket so that we’re leaving tomorrow for Nanning (find it on Google Maps) to visit my other grandparents. I’ll be looking out for some more cool movies to buy.

I went to Pizza Hut yesterday, and I was like, “Finally, some regular American food.” Nope. Pizza Hut has reinvented itself as an expensive restaurant in China. The one I went to was 2 stories, had some really nice deco, and people would wait in lines to eat there. The people here don’t treat Pizza Hut the same way. When we go to the Hut in the States, it’s usually a big pizza, some sodas, and some breadsticks. Here, the pizza has no emphasis, and some of the pizzas are just weird (like, most had no tomato sauce). They didn’t even have breadsticks; they had stuff like escargo, seafood salad, and Roman Holiday pizza. During the holidays they have ostrich pizza. Most of the people that eat there will get a small pizza and a bunch of other dishes. And yes, I did have some escargo.

I got a cool drawing tablet ($65) so I can draw pretty pictures without struggling with my mouse. And today, was my last day at work here. In a couple hours I’ll be taking a train back to Zhenjiang.

I got to talk to some of you guys on AIM! Had to get up at 6:30 am just to do so.

I really see why so many Americans aren’t healthy. Here, if you want to get somewhere, you walk a ways to a bus stop, and ride (probably standing) a while, get off, and then walk some more. It’s a lot of walking around. I’m live on the 7th floor (top floor) in my apartment building, and typically, buildings shorter than 10 stories don’t have elevators. In the U.S., especially smaller places, you just hop in your car and drive yourself there, then ride the elevator up a couple floors, and you’re there.

Business is picking up where I’m at. I still haven’t done anything, but I got to help a little (very little) with assembling a comp. The guy assembled the whole thing, found out it didn’t work, and had to take the whole thing apart. Eventually we found out it was a bad mobo. We got an mp4 player (technically it wasn’t) and an FM transmitter for the car. I bought a couple USB gamepads – who wants one?