Well I am in Guilin, China...I survived my train ride from Beijing!!! I read a bad book and slept and thats about it, no one spoke English, one lady however kept trying to feed my chicken feet (days old) and radishes, I chose the radishes and have a new found 'like' for this vegetable that I would not have touched before!!! My 27 hour train ride ended up only being 24 hours, to my surprise, in true megan style I had my shit scattered EVERYWHERE and had to pack it up and run off the train as Guilin wasnt the last stop!!!! That was a funny site for everyone around me!! Guilin is beautiful....you must google it.....and I hear that whatever pics you see are actually pics from Yangshuo where I am heading tomorrow. It smells like Portugal which is lovely!!!! Thats about it....later, megs

I just gotta get outta this place

ha ha!!! Well I've been in Beijing for almost 1 week....not intentionally though....Im taking a 27 hour train to a small village in the south of China tomorrow and had to wait a few days to get a sleeper!! I went to the great wall today, which was the highlight of all the tourist sites here, the rest are all overrated and jam packed with people!!! The food, although I wrote in my last blog, that it was good, isnt. Well, its okay, but you know how the chinese food is in Canada, well its pretty much the same oily greasy, stomach falling out of your ass, food! Megan and I shared a whole Peking Duck tonight...so cheap, 10.00 for a whole duck and side dishes!!! As we were walking back to the hostel we saw a little boy squat and pee all over the road....I guess thats the perk of having a hole in the babies pants and no diapers!!!! What else............Im rather tired and I cant wait to get out of the big city....later, megs

Testicles and.......

Well I am in Beijing, Im writing from the Leo Hostel near Tiananmen square....Beijing is VERY polluted and massive and it takes ages to walk around.....it is far more 'asian' than Korea. People ride bikes all around, wee babies wearing pants without a backside, apparently they just drop a bomb where ever? food is uber cheap and good....especially the delicasies from the night market...I just came back from my second night there. If you happen to be reading this allowed to a child you may want to sensor the next bit!!!! Last night I had testicles, snake and an entire scorpion...mmmmmmmmmm!!!! I went there with a weak stomach from the indian food night adamant not to eat anything strange!! ha ha.....its late and Id better get to bed, I may go hike the great wall tomorrow!! Later, Megs

Hi everyone, by everyone I mean my mother...well perhaps more of you will read this too!!!!
Thanks to Melisa, I now have my very own pink blog....yes Heather you will have to wear your sunglasses!!!! I am sitting in Heathers apartment in Suwon, about 1 hour outside of Seoul, on a good traffic day, 3 hours on a bad day......she is sleeping and I am preparing for my slow boat to china (perhaps mentally preparing). I am leaving for China on Tuesday and will hopefully befriend some amazing person to have me stay with them in Beijing, he he!! I have had an amazing last week in Korea....went on a road trip to the east coast where Heather and I went in the ocean, lots of laughs and chocolate mini eggs, yes the easter bunny managed to find us in Korea!!! What a good easter bunny! Lots of jimjilbangs, friends and good food....and I think I managed not to drive Heather too crazy with my idea of clean!! Melisa came up from Wando to spend my last weekend with me, thanks millie......At the beginning of the week Heather and I randomly met a couple of ajashis (old men), while Heather was doing sit ups on a bench, at the medieval wall, with an amazing view of Suwon and cherry blossoms all around, who taught us how to play the traditional Korean flute......in Korea I have become used to sharing everything, drinks, communal portions of food and traditional flutes, while playing a friend of Heathers walked by and invited us for tea at her amazing tea house, while there we met an amazing man, Daewon Seo, who spent the past 20 years in Italy and is apparently 'the italian chef' of Korea. He offered to make us a private italian dinner at the tea house...so Friday night we went for an amazing 5 course, 3 hour Italian meal, with Italian music and CCR in the background. Saturday night Hwan Jin came and cooked us amazing Korean food and on Sunday night we went for Indian Buffet.....Im like a bear getting ready for hibernation, soon (tuesday) I will be eating as uber cheaply as possible as I hop on my slow boat to China, a 25 hour ferry ride!!!! China here I come!!!!

Megan's leaving for China!