Its nice being somewhere familiar
Getting off the airplane was an interesting experience, they were doing some screening for the H1N1 outbreak. I don’t really get what the big deal is, less people have died from it than die of the common flu each year. You get it, go to the doctor, what’s the big deal.
H1N1 Screening In Shenzhen, China from Andrew Lang on Vimeo.
The funnier thing was that they pulled my dad out of line to do a bunch of screening on him. I waited for him for a bit and then he finally came through customs looking like this:
Dad Gets Pwnd By H1N1 Screening at ShenZhen Airport
As sad as it is Shenzhen is a familiar place to me now. We’re staying in the same hotel we’ve stayed in the last few times we’ve been here and I kind of feel like I have the whole situation figured out. Ray and Anderson came by the hotel an hour or so after we arrived and took me to go get a bite to eat. I pretty much know the area around the hotel.
I had them help me negotiate a 2 week gym membership at the gym in walking distance from our hotel. I was hoping we could ge them down to 20 bucks for 2 weeks, seems reasonable to me. I guess the best they could do was 30 bucks, kind of a ripoff but its a lot better than doing pull ups on a tree and situps in grass.
“Work” starts tomorrow at the factory. I actually like working there since, even more than usual, nobody knows what my job really is so I basically get to do whatever I want. I’ll probably spend most of the day working on the website for Lightning MMA and talking with Bala on MSN and stuff. I love being here, the people are awesome, so much nicer than people are in Cali. I don’t know if its just this atmosphere that makes me friendlier or knowing that they wouldn’t understand my sarcasm but I feel like I’m a better person when I’m over here.
