Maral in China -

February 8

Today something really awesome happened.

The sun was shining, and the weather turned into like the

hottest summerday in Sweden. Weather here is soo strange.

We have like 24°C today, few days ahead are supposed to be

22-27°C and then after that it's gonna drop down back to

8°C Like wtf. Is that even possible? Anyway, the sun really

made me happy. I couldn't stop smiling and laughing.

Spent most of my day sitting on the roof.

I even did a short test vlog, on Ustream.

Quality sucks for now, but atleast the sound works!

I figured out what was wrong with my sound before.

On my sound-options I had my speakers to like play

the microphone sound, so in some way it went around

and just fucked everything up, making it sound like

a 100 dying ducks. It's still not really that good.

But it's way better than it used to be.

About the quality of the camera. It sucks.

I can vlog inside, but when I did the vlog in the sun...

my god... The camera couldn't really handle the strong

sun so it all became white and I look like some

monster from the ring (according to XeleX) but

according to Anthony I look like custard or cake.

(I'm not sure if that's supposed to be better? I don't think so.)

I'll buy a camera as soon as I go to Guilin.

Because apparantly Yangshuo is like what Chinatown is in America.

This place is a massive place for tourists, They even have a

street called "Western Street". Chinese people come here to

see the unique landscape and town but one of their main reasons

for coming here is to see foreigners. Maybe thats why I love the

food so much here, because it really isn't completely "Chinese".

If I may say that. They go for stuff we'd prefer. I guess.

Or maybe not... but that would make sense, because I can't

see how all the 40 people I've talked to hated this food.

The food is brilliant. It's amazing. It's better than anything I've had.

I had no clue this was the case with Yangshou though,

people warned me about how chinese people were gonna stare

at me and stuff, but I never noticed any of that.

I only noticed a little in Guilin because people would come up to me

just to look at me and they would say something in Chinese,

I'd ask Ricky and apparantly it was "beautiful beautiful lady".

I thought chinese people were crazy, because I looked like shit.

(I had been travelling for 25 hours so wasn't really strange that I looked like crap.)

Anyhow, my point is.. If you buy technology here in Yangshuo

they know that you really need it NOW. So they charge you loads

more than they would in a big town. Yangshou is just a very small town.

I love Yangshou though. It's so beautiful.

I want to stay here for teaching. I heard that in other parts of China

there has been 3 cases with this organisation only haha that the

schools has hired lifeguards for their foreign teachers because they

fear for their safety. Not that anyone would want to necessarily hurt

them, it's just that they're so popular, they get followed everywhere

and yeah people literally treat you like you're some famous celebrity.

They hire guards because if something happens to the foreign teacher

the school loses it's license. Schools here are important, so you

can imagine how bad some schools don't want you to get hurt.

I mean, for some people you are the first foreigner they've ever

seen in their whole life. It's a big thing for them to have

communicated with "the foreigner" or take a picture to have as memory.