I've been slacking on the blogging a bit so this is a long one. If there is one thing my cousin Kevin knows about, its where to get the best food. His big Buddha belly should be proof enough. Well anywyays, the past few days I've been hanging out with Kevin a lot. Partially because I got stuck at his apartment during the Typhoon and partially because he's awesome and I like hanging out with him. He has also been helping me out a lot here, helping me get my phone...

So the most exciting thing that I did today was go to a local supermarket pretty close to where I'm living now. Now when I say supermarket I mean SUPERmarket and when I said exciting I'd like to rephrase that to terrifying. It was, I think, 3-4 huge floors of pretty much anything you could possibly want to buy. Think of Walmart on super steriods. So not only was the store bigger than almost every store ive seen in America, it was so crowded that it looked like Bl...

So today was my first real day exploring China. Started the day out getting some brunch at a shopping center. It was a huge mall that had so many American stores in it I bet someone could go in there and not even realize they were in China! Except, I guess all the Asians would have given it away... The most surprising store to me was Coldstone! Apparently its quite popular here and I saw several more throughout the day. My "uncle" had a business conference that ...

Hello everyone! After a long day of travel I have finally arrived in Shanghai. I left my house in Renton at 3:00am on August 1st and arrived in Shanghai August 2nd at 3:30pm and with a 15 hr time difference... I guess thats about 21 hours of travel? Thankfully I had no problems with my flights and none of my baggage was lost! My first flight was from SeaTac to Vancouver. The plane that we took was by far the scariest and smallest plane I've ever been on. It was ...