hi, i’m jenn

i posted 33 pictures from china on flickr. that’s enough to get you started.

having fun in beijing. here’s a lowdown of the highlights:

staying with marielle and fred. minus the mosquitoes
beijing duck with suzannah
bar hopping and pole dancing
three hour hike along the great wall

now, for the grand finale of my trip: the silk market. gotta make my mama proud.

i would buy pumas from shanghai tang (okay, i nearly did).
i would buy a $1000 dress by yoon hanii.
i would stay in the grand hyatt.
i’d be rich.

in china, tissues are your friend. i mean, i’ve been dependant for a few reasons:

my nose is runny (and i’m not into blowing it onto the street like locals)
they don’t give you napkins at restaurants
many washrooms don’t have toilet paper
fancy stores give you tissues so your makeup doesn’t come off on their dresses

when i bought […]

i’m in an internet cafe that is bigger than a gymnasium with row after row of computers. it’s 3RMB (less than 50 cents) an hour, and each computer has a big set of headphones and a web cam. there are even private rooms. everyone seems to be gaming, except for lori and i (the only […]

Hey guys,
I am back from the 2-day Tiger Leaping Gorge trek, safe and sound in Xian (and slightly sunburned). Despite an inauspicious start to our first day (I fainted onto the bathroom floor of our hostel) and beginning the hike when the sun was the strongest, Schachter and I still managed to ascend the […]

at first lijiang might just seem like a pretty place with stall after stall of pashminas and dried yak, but tonight lori and i experienced the fun side of lijiang.
at night along one of the creeks there is a row of restaraunts that have club music playing and flashing strobe lights a la mandel bar […]

so the internet at the hotel won’t let me post to my blog. nothing about the government watching me, but posts just won’t go through. pretty frustrating after writing a great one and then losing it completely. so i’m getting my mom to post them on my behalf.
today lori and i are walking from one […]

a conversation with my father about my upcoming trip to china:
dad: have you got your visa yet for china?
me: yes.
dad: is it single entry or multiple entry?
me: single entry.
dad: then make sure you don’t leave china.
me: okay dad. um, dad, where would i be going?
dad: well, if someone invites you to hong kong for the […]

My parents get home later today, so this is the last email from Mom. I guess I’ll have to get my own life to blog about now..
Too busy in Shanghai to even stop and email. The city is incredible with buildings the likes of which we don’t see at home. And at night each building […]