A Worldwide Night

Until about three weeks ago, I considered myself somewhat of a traveler. Even though I've never even traveled outside of America until now, I have visited around 20 states and can never seem to stay put. Considering my university was 550 miles from my hometown, yet still in the same state, I would say that being from Texas means you can do quite a bit of traveling without ever technically leaving your backyard. But, now that I'm in China, it seems like every person I meet has lived in or at least visited several different countries. I'm now to a grand total of 2. Last Friday night, I was sitting at a table in a bar on west street that included myself, from Texas, Justin and Francisco from California, Marty from Sydney, Australia, Yogev from Israel, Simon and Johnny from Leeds, England, Darcy from Shenzhen, China, Eiki from Harbin, China, Jen from Toronto, Canada, and Robert from the Netherlands. Not very often can you say that. This wasn't just a one night thing, I meet people from all over the world all the time. A couple nights ago I played pool with Camilla from England, her Chinese friend (with a thick British accent) Jun from Shanghai, and Tony from China.

I now have two roommates, Marty from Sydney and John from Ohio. John is a pretty experienced rock climber so I think this weekend I'm renting some equipment and heading out to do my first outdoor climbing. I'll let you know how it goes.

More to come...