The mountain

Well today I went to the mountains that I see all the time from my back porch.


However I think I need to go back by myself because then I can venture more, I like to keep going to random places. Lol. It was still a lot of fun with my new found friend "zhang jing"


We had to climb this huge hill which was the roof of this tunnel for cars. Lol.










This is a grave, but I took the picture and Zhang Jing was like, "DON'T TAKE A PICTURE OF THAT!! IT'S A GRAVE!!" Ohhhh Diana Chao you have lots to learn. Lol.






So we sat on the mountain and talked about Chinese politics and schooling. It's really interesting to hear, she wasn't bias about it so it was nice to hear the "total truth" in terms of Taiwan and Tibet and the way the systems are about school. I was so happy that she was teaching me all the Chinese history that I didn't really pay attention to in America. She was really interested to hear what America thought about the whole ordeal.
In China, it is a very touchy subject to talk about politics. You just don't do it because it causes problems. Unlike America where you can talk about whatever you please and do whatever you want, there are certain things you just don't talk about here. And if you do want to talk about it, you find someone cool like Zhang Jing and they let you know about it. Lol.

Good times today. <3

Passport dayyy

Today I decided to go downtown and retrieve my passport from the visa place.
So I took the bus, It takes about 40 minutes to an hour to get downtown which fucking sucks. Lol. But it was still entertaining.

Here's some things I saw from the bus:





A mission to retrieve my passport. I had to ask a billion people where the passport place was. They would only tell me 2 streets and then I would have to ask another person. -_-' It was rather annoying. Lol.



Yes Susan, Nate, Leggerz...There is a Chinese Macdons. Lol. I'll show you more western restaurants once I explore the world of China more. Lol.


I had this delicious dessert at some fruit place. It had coconut, red bean and some other thing i don't know what it's called in english but it's really good. In china, if you spend a certain amount of money they give you money to go eat food down in the little restaurants. AWESOME I LOVE FOOD AND SHOPPING.


Here are some clothes I bought today, ahahaha soon I will adapt the Chinese style.



It's a lot of pressure to buy clothes in China because they want you to look good. They stand there watching you look at clothes, and then they come up and suggest other clothes, but they are really good at it because they take one look at you and know exactly all the clothes you would look at or would buy. It's amazing. 0.0 This is why everyone in china is stylish. Lol.

I forgot to mention that on the way back from the bus there was a old man singing some songs really loud, I wish I knew what he was singing, I think he was singing about the Lord or something, that's the only word I could understand. I asked the other people on the bus but they either ignored me or they also said they didn't understand the man. A high schooler was really annoyed by the man. Lol.
I liked it. It was probably the best bus ride i've ever had. If only I had a sound recorder for you guys to hear the amazing sounds that I've been hearing.

A walk around town

I made this last night, i don't think I'll use that as my actual background, but it's what the animation will feel like.



I needed some background ideas for my animation, so I went around town and took some pictures and ended up in some construction site. Lol

























Oh yes, I got yelled at by some guy driving a van on the construction site. He thought it was weird for me to be taking all these pictures. He told me, "There's nothing to take pictures of."
And then a kid around my age came up to me with a huge gash around his eye (he opened the door for this van) and asked me why i was taking pictures.
I told him I was from America and he told me he was from Italy. He also told me that there is nothing to take a picture of, but I insisted that there was.
But his friend laughed at me and started mocking me because I from the US.
I didn't care so I went on my way and took pictures, he was watching me the whole time after he closed the gate but I told him I saw his shoes and pointed, it was a good laugh.

After this walk a woman sold me some mangos and grapes for 2.10 rmb. Which is kind of a lot, but whatever. Lol. And then I got the most amazing bubble tea everrr. China makes the best for realz.