Big Bro Mao has blocked access to facebook, any american blog, twitter.. but surprisingly lets fmylife get through. Connection is really slow and unreliable. G-mail in Chinese is allowed so I'm routing this post through that.
I arrived safely in 椒江 (Jiao Jiang) yesterday afternoon after a five hour drive with my uncle (mom's sister's husband) from Shanghai. Had some great conversations about philosophy (overcoming the language barrier made things interesting). Spent the afternoon catching up with my older cousins (daughter and sister of my father's older sister) and later hit up the karaoke with them and my uncle.
Before we went to the KTV, everyone claimed to be terrible at singing, the self-effacing attitude typical/expected from native Chinese. I made them go first and they all killed it receiving close to full scores on the Guitar Hero-esque rating system at the end of their songs. After 30 seconds of me serendading them with Usher's "Burn" (English options were limited to that, Britney Spears, and Madonna), they were all in stiches laughing. The computer sided with them and gave me a 65.
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