So the two art teachers including myself don't start until the fourth week of school because we are teaching the Freshman and they all have three weeks of mandatory military training. It is funny seeing all of them walking around in their military blues, marching, and doing drills. Then we walk by and say ni hao and all the girls start laughing and giggling.
So I have a lot of chillin time for now. Today we went downtown and got some good street food and took some pictures. It's cool when a Chinese person asks you if they can take a picture with you as if you were a celeb, such as two dudes in a DJ/music shop did today.
I'm startin to get the lay of the land around here and know where to go for what, what buses to take, when a cabbie is ripping you off or not, etc. We've met some cool cats named Bruce and Allen who like to show us around and they have pretty good English. There's also a big white fluffy dog that's always chillin around our apartments that I have appropriately dubbed 'Panda' and if you saw him you would know why.
So with part of my free time we have made our way over to the music building, and there we have met Mr. 1 and Mr. 2, two chinese students who play the drums chillin on the 1's and 2's. Everyone is pretty cool there and showed us some instruments from the old dynasty's that sound beautiful. So tonight we jammed with Mr. 1. My friend JT and Mr. 1 split the drumming, Mike jammed on the guitar with the amp hooked up, and I spit some flows on the mic. It was fun, and we'll be something good to do during the frigid winter months when it is supposedly going to be freezing.....damn, where's my LA sunshine
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