Voice of Will: While Crissy was Gone

2005-04-06 - 11:33 p.m.
So I did have several adventures while crissy was gone.

1. The school actually built a play ground with 3 slides, 2 climbing poles, and 2 swings for children. I was amazed. Looking at it, it is very like an american playground equipment (why not they build them here and ship them to the state). Cost in US about 20,000USD. They put it together in about 4 hours, and the kids love it. In fact all the neighborhood kids are playing on it/in it, and with it until the wall gets built.

2. The school is buildind a 10-15 person jacuzzi for the foreign teachers. they have fully poured the concrete, and are letting it dry. All that in less than5 days. I hope htey tile it because dry concrete is not the best thing for the soft undersides of us wimpy foreigners. I'm more worried about some of the younger teachers trying ot use the hot tub for romantic issues. No, most of the teachers are missionaries, and many of them are hypocrites, and some of them actually date students. Or they will try to use it for baptism...

3. In order to protect our privacy the school is erecting a 3 meter fence around the area of the playground and jacuzzi. this is to keep the playground for the staff children only I disagree with this btw. How are my kids to make friends if they can't play with the local kids. This playground is new, and works, and is wonderful (though small), compared to most playgrounds (shudder, the playgrounds in china were designed by some exercise nazzzzi who managed to convince chinese govenrment that crappy gym equipment was "fun" for children. No slides, no climbing bars, no teeter tottres. treadmills, stair masters, leg press machines, I'm not joking.)

This fence is also to protect the privacy of the foreign teachers using the hot tub. It is supposed to be high enough that people wlaking by cannot see in, and that people on the second floor of the 2 dorms nearby cannot see in. Hey in my opinion if they want to oogle the many old, overweight, fish belly white, flabby foreigners why should I stop them. I'm looking forward to making many of them not want kids ;)
4, My weirdest adventure happened while trying to get my email. China's email service, and interet on this campus SUCK @$$. for the last three weeks the only time to get online is before 8 am, and well after 10 pm. any other attempt will result in Unable to find ... or operatoin timed out.

In order to check my email, I went off campus to a local internet bar. I go to the first one, and they wave me away even though there are empty computers I can see. Ok. I go to the second one and the same thing happens (I'm figuring they don't speak english, and don't want a hassle), so when I get to the third one I go in and say "interent" and mime typing. the lady behind the desks says "ok" and then points me to a rather dishevled individaul who motions me to follow. So I follow him, and as we walk deeper into the dark squallor in the back of the building we are passing several empty computers, but he keeps going, so I follow him.
We go up a flight of stairs that were probably built with the great wall of china, and go up to another flight fo stairs to the third floor. Now I have heard from several students that the Third Floor is where the "prostitutes" are. They will offer ot 'massage' you. I 'm getting kind of nervous, but still wanting my email fix from criss. so I follow him out of the stair well, and thre is a hallway only filled with doors. uht oh. Now I'm worried. I'm not interested in the little chinese women in the slightest way, but I don't want the embarassment. So I tell myself if we go into a room and there is a girl on a bed, I'm sooooo outta there.

Well we go to the end of the hall, and he opens a door. The first thing I see is the bed. Now I'm getting ready to turn and leave, but I look against wall with the door, and I notice the very high end computer. great, email. I walk in the room, and smile at the guyu and proceed to get online. Now I'm waiting for the interent to load (much much much faster thn even on campus during a good time), and I look up right into a very very expensive webcam pointed right at me frmo the computer. So I"m looking around the room, there is a bed behind me, there is a high end computer, an expensive webcam pointed at the bed. On a whim I looked up at the roof. in each corner of the roof pointed at the bed are stage lights. great. you guessed it. In my desire to get my wife's email I had actually stumbled onto an internet porn studio. In xinzheng china (dirt poor, and highest rate of STD's in china). Amazing.

Will