Wow time sure flies

I can't believe how long it has been since I was in China already. I got back on the 11th and its already the 27th! Thats more than 2 weeks already! Well, what have I done in the past 2 weeks? Im not exactly sure lol. Not all the things that I should have been doing thats for sure. Ive been to work a lot. Got myself a BBQ and got that up and working. Bike rack, got a bike from Dad. I also played in the Pointfore tourney last weekend. It was a lot of fun even though we didn't do so well. I have also started the restoration process on the infamous 55! Last tuesday I spent the evening with Alex working on the beast! We basically just took the thing apart and thats about it. We still need to somehow get the steering column apart and to also take of all the pulleys and sheaves on the mower deck. After that we go on to cleaning all the grease and oil off the machine so that we can sand all the good parts down to get them ready for repainting. Some of the parts on the machine are in pretty rough shape. We should probably replace the ball joints as well as the muffler. Other than that the machine is still in really good shape.

Work has been fun lately. We sold 47 john deere lawn tractors to the Toronto District School Board. Each one of these machines needs to be equiped with snow blades, which also means that they need wheel weights installed as well. Its a good thing that we are just shipping the blades with the tractors in the boxes. That means I do not have to install them. The wheel weights are a pain however, because I have to drill holes into the rear rims of every machine before putting on the weights. I was working at it almost all day today and only got 5 of them done! That means 42 more...... aiya!

Sorry for taking so long

Hey guys, sorry for taking so long to post something on my blog. I just havent had enough time in any of the internet cafes to post anything up or even check my blog. So here it is, the start of my last week here in china and i finally am able to post something.

So a lot has happened in the past 2 weeks, there have been times where i kinda pointed at things at random on menu's cuz i couldnt read them. Ate lots of things that i didnt know what they were, and also had a disgusting hamburger at a western food place that was way too expensive in chinese pricing. You can get a beer here for 2.60 and the hamburger with fries was 36 yuan. Aiya.

So in the upcoming week I will probably have to spend most of my time studying and preparing presentations. This week i have a test, a 5 minute oral presentation and a 600 character essay to do in chinese. That seems like quite a lot, hopefully i can get it done in time. Friday im finished the course and i have the rest of the day to relax or just blow off all the steam that i have left. Just check out a lot of places before heading back.

One of the interesting things about china, is the fact that you can bargain people down on prices, i have even seen my friend here bargain our meal at a restaurant. I got lots of things for cheap that way, but people dont seem to like it all that much. Considering i am the white male, the person who every chinese person wants to rip off. At the black market some guy wanted to sell me some crazy chopstick set for about 150 yuan. I told him my friend got the bigger set for 60, and so that i would give him 20, i widdled him down to 25 and still told him i would give him 20. At that point he got so pissed off that he said in mandarin to me (20 dollars your mom!) So i just casually walked away and then he chased me down and said, ok 20 yuan. He was pissed.

And now my most proud purchase, the Armortec 80 000! I got it for 100 yuan at the black market yesterday. They guy tried to sell it to me for 350 yuan or so, but i got my female friend to bargain it for me since shes a female and they like them better, so we eventually got it for 100 yuan, pretty good price since thats only about 16 canadian (roughly) its a 6 to 1 ratio.

Anyway so i guess i should probably head back to the campus now and catch up on some studying. Talk to you all soon.