Maral in China

I'm going with some of my friends here from Yangshuo and we will

be visiting Charlie and Laura. (they are teaching there!)

Apparantly their students are horrible and messy. Hahaha.

Can't wait to go there.

Woke up today with a terrible itch right under my right boob..

I thought.. "errr.... what the fuck?"... Felt with my hand..

Yeah, got 3 horrible bugbites right there. It's horrible.

First I thought it was mosquitobites because it was itching so much...

but no, whatever it was really dug in deep. I took a picture with my phone.

But you can't really see how disgusting it is. So I took another one

with my digital camera but it's really not nice to look at... at all...

So I'll just link that one and if you wanna watch those disgusting bites

close-up, then yeah, go ahead. It's all up to you. Warned you though...

Here's the "friendly" picture.

Here's the not so friendly- picture.

http://pici.se/pictures/GdPNsWMHN.jpg <--RIGHT THEREEEEE.. BRRRR.

It's pretty horrible knowing that I sleep with whatever gave me that.

Other than that I don't really have anything to update with.

I've gained loads of weight. Not even joking. It's horrible.

But I'll go hardcore workout mode when I'm back in Europe.

Only 3 weeks left until Jesse comes over :D.

Woohoooo!


(Also my stalker has a new tactic. His door faces mine but is

a few doors away, so nowadays he just has his door open 24/7

pretending to sit and do something random at his desk, so that

he can see whenever I walk in and out -

just so he can wave and say "Harroow ^___^")

It makes me chuckle.

Sorry I can't be home for your birthday, I hope you have a wonderful day.

You're the best mother there is, I love you so much!

These are my students singing Happy Birthday for you.

(My batteries ran out at the very end, and they did have some

problems pronouncing your name. but don't worry! They don't even

know how to say my name and I'm their teacher so they just call me

"Teacher Mia". Haha.)

I guess there's not much to say.

I kind of miss everyone at home, but it's not so bad.

I hope you're all doing well and that you're having a wonderful time.

Weather has been pretty bad. It's raining everyday. (Is it rain season or something?)

It must be! Rains all the time. I guess I shouldn't complain because in a month or so

it will be really really hot. I think. I'm not sure. I shouldn't talk about stuff I don't

know anything about.


Hmm, so two days ago or so, something really odd happend.

I just got out of the shower and someone was knocking on my door like

there was no tomorrow. I didn't have any time to put anything on and I was

having loud music on, so I thought.. "whoa maybe it's the landlord telling me

to turn the volume down." So I turned the music off, and opened the door,

but I was sort of hiding behind it since I was only wearing a towel.

It was not the landlord knocking on my door.

No.. It was my neighbour, he was in a hurry to use his toilet and he didn't

have any toilet paper and when he saw me he was really chocked because

he didn't know his neighbour was a foreigner... in a towel.

Ofcourse I gave the poor dude some toilet paper.

He went "Solli Solli" and ran off.

Reliefed that it wasn't the landlord complaining on me I turned the music back on.

5 minutes later someone was knocking on my door again.

Once again it was my neighbour. He came to return the paper he did not use and

he also gave me some chinese sweets. (they look horrible and

I wouldn't eat that even if it was the last eatable thing in the whole world!)

I was like.. "err thanks, you don't really have to though.. it's just toilet paper.."

The guy doesn't speak a single word of english... Even so.. he tries his best

to have a conversation with me. So the first thing (and the only thing he can say) is..

"YOU.. ARE.. BEAUTIFUL!"

"...........err... thanks"

awkward situation much?

He was determined to show me his room (which is a 1000 times nicer than mine)

I bet he doesn't have bugs in his room either. Actually I'm surprised we live in

the same block. You'd never be able to tell it's the same house actually.

I don't think I've told you guys yet, but my room is HORRIBLE.

It's not even worth to be called anything else than "THE ROOM" with capital letters.

(Just to add the horror sound to it. You know?)

Then I'm like.. "okay cool. Nice room. I have to go now though"

He knew I was going somewhere because I was getting ready right.

So he tried for like 10 minutes to ask me if I was going to town.

And well.. I was going to the internetcafe so I was like showing him with

bodylanguage that I was going to the internetcafe.

He asked me if he could come with me..

Oh man........

I mean, he's my neighbour and I didn't wanna be rude or whatever.

Especially not after he's spent so much time and effort to ask.

Also in China there is something called "losing face".

Most of the chinese people don't speak english. They are very shy.

So when they actually do it's very important to praise it.

Be positive you know. I bet it took all the confidence he had to

ask if he could join me to the internetcafe. (Since I'm a foreigner.)

So he goes down and I motion that I just have to brush my teeth and

get my jacket. I'll be down in a minute or two. He says okay and goes down.

Then he comes back up again to knock on my door.

I'm like... "ok".....

I open the door and there he is.. completely naked (!!!!!!!)

Okay that was a joke. hahaha. I'm so funny. No.. but..

What really happend was that he tries to tell me that the

landlord thinks that "YOU... and .. ME.. NO GOOD.."

"Errrr.. okay"..

Then he tries some more and of what I can understand he

wants me to go down first and then he wants to follow me to

the internetcafe so that the landlord doesn't think we'll go together.

.. What.. the... fuck...??? (sorry for swearing mum.)

I honestly didn't feel like playing weird games.

I just wanted to go to the internetcafe ASAP because I

always talk to Jesse on skype around that time and I was

already late because of my toiletpaper-neighbour.

So I started walking to the internetcafe and yes ofcourse

he follows me there and takes the computer right next to me.

He starts to use some sort of translating program to talk to me.

Saying he's 22 and it's Gods Will that we have met...

that he's nervous and that he has never talked to a foreigner before.

That he is very happy to have me as his neighbour.. etc etc etc.

I tell him I have a boyfriend I love very much but it seems like

he's not giving up. Chinese people are so.. subtle with their love.

Atleast here where I'm located. So he probably thought that

me even letting him follow me to the internetcafe means that I

like him or something. ...................... siiiiiiiiiiigh.............

THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING NICE TO PEOPLE....

Too my great surprise and relief, Ricky shows up out of nowhere.

Sees me and goes.. "Maral??" "Who is this guy??"

I explain and he just starts to laugh... sooo much..

Then he tells my neighbour that him and I are going out to eat.

I told Jesse I'd go online later.

So we go for some food me and Ricky.

Where he constantly says that my neighbour will knock on my door everyday now.

And yeah.. Guess who knocked on my door 10 o clock this morning.

It was obviously him, but I didn't open the door.

So yeah.. basically what I'm trying to say is...

I have a stalker now..

..Great...