darn wireless router blocked me after about a day. got some stuff typed up that I'll copy&paste here.
the weekend
so saturday afternoon it hit me. exhausted and hungry, jetlag keeping me awake and I hadn't been able finish a meal since I arrived no matter how good it tasted. frustrated by the language too, not being able to read anything. I felt so dumb having to use a picture-menu to order food. spent most of the afternoon crying
later we went out to some club. the air was thick with smoke, worse than an irish pub. I spent a lot of time with my eyes closed and my shirt over my mouth, and even at my best I was still squinting. I did get up to watch the pole dancer though.
eventually I danced for a while. got hit on by some creepy guy and a cute girl too. we were all supposed to go eat afterwards, but at some point I had a shot of straight whiskey and started feeling queasy. realllly wanted a western toilet at that point. devon took me home, I felt better after a while, and then helped him translate some text messages he'd gotten. :) I slept like a log that night. felt a lot better in the morning. wanted to go shopping sunday, but somehow spent most of the day in bed, and then ashi wouldn't go out because it was raining. after watching movies or something we went out to dinner and then karaoke. at first I wasn't feeling good and all the songs were in frigging traditional characters and people were smoking again and I didn't know what was going on n'stuff. but then I drank a lot and they put on some english songs for me and ashi, and it was more fun. me and devon went home eventually, and ashi stayed late and had a hell of a hangover in the morning.
monday
monday the chaos was getting on my nerves a bit much. I cleaned the living room a bit so I could have somewhere to put my laptop while devon and ashi slept. an ant crawled out of the laptop while it was turned on; I'm lucky nothing was fried :P damn ants. I'd go otu and buy raid if I knew where to get it.
wish the darn wireless would let me back on, but it seems they've entirely blocked me.
eventually devon woke up, took forever to get out to get breakfast because he wanted ashi to come and she was too hung over. I have a train ticket for thursday, but I don't know where to, I don't have any maps of hangzhou or anything... devon and ashi don't even know the bus routes around here! I feel raelly helpless without a phone or house key or anything.
anyways, when we finally got food, I actually finished my meal! for the first time since arriving here. :) then we went to a bookshop and I got some stuff to practice - two short stories that have both characters and english, and one kiddie book. I can read a fair amount of the kiddie book without a dictionary :) it's so nice to not be struggling with every darn character.
we went home after that because devon was feeling icky... I wanted to go back out later, but ashi wanted to watch movies, and they hypnotized me :P we eventually got out for dinner, then me and devon went home and were supposed to go out again to meet ashi at some club... once we got home, I didn't really feel like going back out. eventually devon went, and I went to bed shortly after. it took me a long time to get to sleep - at one point there was a hailstorm! (turns out it may have just been really loud rain, actually.) the roof here must be tin or something - it's terribly noisy. devon got in late saying something about drama and nonsense and not being able to find ashi. good thing I stayed home. but... now it's tuesday morning (well, almost noon) and she's not home. I hope that means shes with her bf, and not that anything bad happened. devon's still fast asleep, so I think I'll go get food for myself... either I'll take his keys or just leave the door unlocked.
...yeah, turns out she's fine, just pissing people off.
oh yeah, and the traffic is hilarious. I've already seen one car driving on the sidewalk. it's really not scary, thoguh :) evryone's careful. but one time devon and ashi saw an accident... or the remains of one... some guy had run into traffic, apparently, and... well, there was nothign below the knees or above the shoulders. ouch.