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Shanghai, January 5, 2005
I re-read are 150,000 and 40,000, will increase. It's been eight days. But what is the difference 'from 40,000 to 150,000? And if they become 200,000? It's not 'easy to tie emotion to a number. As if we see two orphaned sisters, we are also crying. We are made so limited in understanding large numbers, but sensitive to the particular case.
And I understand that my choice and 'just and can' work. I have sent 10, 20, 50 euros, and I will send 'photos and stories. You will know that those 20 euros are now 1000 baht with the lady who now "Khan" is buying new clothes. Stories, yes, I'll have 'talk and tell me, do a little' as a journalist. We will see, and 'a new thing for me. Meanwhile, thank you for your trust, I hope well placed.

In the meantime, go ahead even our personal histories, and for me 'means the end of China tomorrow. Five weeks of intensive courses of Chinese business in the morning and afternoon. I learned the language? Seriously? In five weeks? Anyway I'm happy 'cause I found that in six months done well you can' do (but only oral '), and I thought it would take years.
Once again, when I almost had my ass used to the texture and temperature of the toilet room, to carry on a journey with me to old horizons. Old 'cause now in Bangkok are at home.
New, however, 'cause of doing good I had never crossed my mind. But this time, repeat, and 'too big to sit back and watch. In a world where even Bush and 'become good ...

Today I went to the hospital because 'I and' popped another bubble, this time on the back. I do not remember if and when I wrote it but it 'from April in Peru', which I regularly swells a pimple on the skin that grows grows, it fills with pus, and hurts like Executioner, then explodes and disappears. Every once in different places and each time is the last hope.
I believe it is due to meat and alcohol. That is to say, 'I do not eat meat for 15 years, but two years ago I started and I had these problems. Then I stopped, but every so often happens to me in a soup or a piece somewhere. And I regularly check the bubble. Also, if I drink alcohol weakens the immune system. In this week I drank a few beers and a week ago, I also ate a little 'meat, but little eh? And here is the bubble bummm.
Then this morning I asked Jack to take me to a traditional Chinese doctor, one of those herbs and submerged inguenti imperial scale complete with copper.
He says "I'll take you to the hospital, where they have traditional medicine." Ok.
We go to the hospital and pay 8 yuan (0.8 million) to the case where a digital voice repeats the price even in Chinese.
Then go to the doctor and there 'a row of little old Chinese course waiting in chairs. We are practically in the hallway. The doctor and 'sitting at her desk and speaks with a patient.
All they look at me and an old woman laughs and says, "a foreigner who is treated with Chinese medicine, hi hi hi!".
Ok, I think, that there 'strange?
When it came my turn to Dr. Jack explains the problem and she leads me behind a booth 'at the end of the corridor.
I lift my shirt / shirt / sweater and the doc starts to feel around the offending area. He says that it 'better than cure me that with Western medicine with traditional it takes too long. But I want to make me the guinea pig ', and insist the same.
Then give me 'the recipe and brought down'. There are 8 euros back in an hour, tell us the type of herbal. In the meantime, let's go to another doctor that I get with 4 euros pus. While waiting for the study is not known that 'the maximum hygiene, but they are all standards. The doctor goes out the door, smoking a cigarette and I enjoy the aroma of tobacco.
Then come back and do his work without gloves, your fingers and then with a little 'I put the bloody patch. I note with disgust that also touches on other patches intended for future patients. Only at the end of the day, after touching pens, notebooks and bottles, washes his hands. In short, a butcher. But the germs in China do not hurt, if you do not know.

Let's take the weeds and I have a shopping bag with at least three liters of extract heated in the microwave a drink twice a day. Very good, meanwhile, let's see if I stop in Bangkok for illegal importation of medicinal herbs.

Last hours in Shanghai, I still have work to do. At the next

Shanghai December 11, 2004
Yesterday the first taste of nightlife July (the man with the woman's name) and his friend Brian, both Filipinos.
Jumping from one room to the next superchic chic thanks to the support of taxi drivers incomprehensible but that 'we understand more and I found that in China the night life and' similar to that in the rest of the world, changing only the faces drunk.
The Brian and 'here for three weeks but it is' already' could be accommodated by a girl, took us to a place very cool, where you could run with beer in hand to look around in a very easy . On the second floor of the employees were also frustrated South American migrants in China playing sauce that seems fashionable in these parts.
The July strike up a chat with all the women and we were chatting. Needless to deepen the content of these conversations, nothing very original.
At the level we are spending about 4 / 5 euros to enter, 4 euros for beer and 1 / 2 euros for a taxi from one place to another.
All very modern and sometimes you stop and move your lips in pronouncing an inaudible "communism?".
Oh well 'but the usual speeches, communist communists not. Of course if they foresee a burgeoning communist ideology in the neighboring countries. Everyone wants to be rich.
Before going to sleep we went home that housed the girls to take Brian's suitcase. The day before it was returned and gave the boy an ultimatum. Brian now lives with us and feel I have to hear them speak in Filipino. The ugly, 'that there are a lot of words in English and Spanish in this strange hybrid language, so I have to understand and can not concentrate on films in Chinese that I never know if they are Chinese or Cantonese.

The other day, 'the workman came to repair a drawer. He was in a suit and tie and has spent more 'time on the phone that the drawer. I had him fix the toilet bowl and I have enjoyed to see the very elegant to fiddle around.
I say what 'to say that here are all and always in a suit and tie, even the humble.

Shanghai December 4, 2004
The boss of the apartment and 'came back from Guangdong and invited me to dinner. Jack came to us, my personal assistant professor of Chinese, and three friends in their twenties in a nearby apartment.
Before going to the restaurant we went to market with a company car provided with driver. Then we went to a restaurant where there is an original system: choosing fish and seafood (live snakes and if you want) in the tanks, the other dishes are chosen based on these samples on a table and then you sit down.
the girls had asked (three times) in July to ask Jack to ask the waiter in the snake. July, could not stand the idea to host on its board of snakes, said to say that there was none.
Note, in addition to the culinary differences between Filipinos (July) and Chinese (girls), the communication system that is so distinctly Asian diagonal: no one asks or deny anything to anyone directly. It all takes place with the 'mediation of third parties (in this case Jack), thus avoiding the catastrophe of unimaginable for an Asian "lose face".
It looks like a traditional aspect but if you get in Asia and 'better than immediately understand how it works within the' most do not know 'what's going on. We simplify the rule: nothing is done in a straightforward manner.
For us and 'virtue' openness to their subtlety. Not just in books.

Continuing: the food is served as and everybody snacking dishes. In short, original and practical. The food was great.
The seafood in Shanghai in reality 'are all river shrimps, crabs, clams, etc. ... it seems that in Shanghai there is a certain fear of contracting disease from seafood. Only in Shanghai.