What??

Yes I do love it here in China, and I am having tons of fun. But... I'll just tell the truth. I'm ready to come home. Mainly because of all the annoying attention I get. Of course everyone likes attention, but this is gross attention from men and both Hannah and I get so irritated. And it's not just guys, it's everyone. Everyone stares at you like you're a piece of meat, and they shout "Hello!" at you in kind of a cat callish way. It's getting so old.

Today I went out to exercise, Hannah wasn't with me because she was teaching, and everyone passed me just stared and gawked at me. I don't know why, but today I was especially annoyed. I was just annoyed at everyone looking at me. I know that's a bad attitude, but I was. I went even as far as shouting "what?!" to one girl who kept looking back at me. Haha.. sorry. Some people give you really positive attention though, being really nice and genuinely just want to say hello and want to try and talk. I love people like that. The other day Hannah and I were standing at the bus station and a guy came up and asked if he could talk with us. Normally that means the person will start talking to you in bad English and then ask for your "mobile" number afterwards, which is always really awkward because we never actually want to give it to them. But this time he actually just wanted to talk and practice his English, which was pretty good, and he didn't even ask for our cell numbers afterward. Our bus came and he said, "Ok good-bye!" I was so happy with the situation that I even waved good-bye to him on the bus.

So other than that things are going splendidly. But I'll be happy to get home in December (heh heh) and see my family and good friends. But for the time being, I'm still lovin the land of China!

Something that did make me smile today was when I was eating my kiwi. I just love Kiwi's. They are so delicious and juicy here and I love them.