Monday, July 08, 2013
I would like to write sometimes, think I'll put it on my Google Calendar to write something from time to time, I'll diarise it for every month. Just wish I could write interestingly. What is interesting?
It would be terrific if I could think of something original to say, something pretty brilliant, after all this blog has now been around since 2006 and i'm a bit surprised how pedestrian it is. I could write once, i recall a teacher telling me at one point I was brilliant because i wrote a thing about going to the moon or mars, she thought it was great and i was very enthused about writing but I didn't really pursue it.
Well i did when i met Jie. Those trips to China were so great, I thought she was wonderful, I don't really know if others think she is wonderful, I hope so , I do. I wrote those accounts of our trips and how great it was to see her every five months. And it didn't even seem like a relief when I could finally go get her after three and a half years of waiting. I was thrilled yes, but I had got used to only seeing her twice a year, I know she was fed up with waiting, she scared the life out of me one day when just before her interview came up she announced that she was sick of waiting, just sick of it and she said she didn't know if she could wait any longer.
Anyway her interview at Guangzhou came up within three months and of course she aced it and I could go get her, what a feeling it was to take her to Hong Kong, she had never been there and we stayed at the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong and she tasted blueberries for the first time. We flew out on United straight thru to Chicago, nice trip, a lot better than those thirty six hour trips on Asiana or Korean Airlines where I would do the Jet bLUE THING TO New York and then over the pole thru Anchorage AK. But I remember those long trips best, I recall sitting in Seoul Korea at six oclock in the morning thinking the plane leaves for Hong Kong at eleven , i'll be in Hong Kong by four and if i can get to the place that organises the Visa before five I'll pay them to get my visa by six and i can see Jie at about eight after the bus ride to Shenzhen. I know she'll be standing by the stairs all dressed in black and she'll be so small and beautiful and I'll be the happiest guy in the world to get in that cab with her.
Anyway I started to say I liked writing very much when I was writing about those trips, I loved the travel, we did the 24 hour express to Beijing, we did the 36 hour slow train trip to Chonqing where we got on this boat to come down the Yangste to Wuhan, Jie never complained about the fact that I didn't have much money, we got on this boat, I was the only caucasian on board, the food was so bad nobody would eat it we all went to the snack food shop on board and ate candy. Jie didn't care, we were together. With about 500 people who were so nice to me, when I went out on the deck to look around at the scenery they would make room for me, sometimes I suspected they thought I had some really bad disease because they were so careful to make room for me. I loved writing those accounts of our trips.
I really tried hard to make those stories interesting.
Well i did when i met Jie. Those trips to China were so great, I thought she was wonderful, I don't really know if others think she is wonderful, I hope so , I do. I wrote those accounts of our trips and how great it was to see her every five months. And it didn't even seem like a relief when I could finally go get her after three and a half years of waiting. I was thrilled yes, but I had got used to only seeing her twice a year, I know she was fed up with waiting, she scared the life out of me one day when just before her interview came up she announced that she was sick of waiting, just sick of it and she said she didn't know if she could wait any longer.
Anyway her interview at Guangzhou came up within three months and of course she aced it and I could go get her, what a feeling it was to take her to Hong Kong, she had never been there and we stayed at the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong and she tasted blueberries for the first time. We flew out on United straight thru to Chicago, nice trip, a lot better than those thirty six hour trips on Asiana or Korean Airlines where I would do the Jet bLUE THING TO New York and then over the pole thru Anchorage AK. But I remember those long trips best, I recall sitting in Seoul Korea at six oclock in the morning thinking the plane leaves for Hong Kong at eleven , i'll be in Hong Kong by four and if i can get to the place that organises the Visa before five I'll pay them to get my visa by six and i can see Jie at about eight after the bus ride to Shenzhen. I know she'll be standing by the stairs all dressed in black and she'll be so small and beautiful and I'll be the happiest guy in the world to get in that cab with her.
Anyway I started to say I liked writing very much when I was writing about those trips, I loved the travel, we did the 24 hour express to Beijing, we did the 36 hour slow train trip to Chonqing where we got on this boat to come down the Yangste to Wuhan, Jie never complained about the fact that I didn't have much money, we got on this boat, I was the only caucasian on board, the food was so bad nobody would eat it we all went to the snack food shop on board and ate candy. Jie didn't care, we were together. With about 500 people who were so nice to me, when I went out on the deck to look around at the scenery they would make room for me, sometimes I suspected they thought I had some really bad disease because they were so careful to make room for me. I loved writing those accounts of our trips.
I really tried hard to make those stories interesting.
