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One Thing I Really Don’t Like In traffic back home, if someone speeds up into a merge lane, and tries to get ahead of everyone else - it’s considered rude, and overall the majority of people will not do that....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-18 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">18 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Big Night" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/big-night/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Short Update</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I’m pretty much over my jet lag, but I feel like I’m getting sick. I went to bed early last night, to try to get some much needed rest. I didn’t eat dinner, but I had a huge lunch.
I had dinner two nights ago at this really great Korean style BBQ place. They cook the food right at the table. The menu has pictures and a few English descriptions which helps me a lot....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-18 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">18 Oct 2007</span> · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Short Update" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/short-update/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Getting there is NOT half the fun</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>October 14
Zhong Guan Cun District, Beijing
3:50. Really? No, can’t be. It feels like I slept all day. Yep, 4:10 AM. Still pitch dark outside. This must be that jet lag people kept warning me about.
I’m already unpacked, no chance of going back to sleep. I spend the next 45 minutes watching the end of Karate Kid 2, dubbed in Mandarin, with Chinese sub-titles. I was totally lost until the big dramatic fight scene at the end....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-15 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">15 Oct 2007</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Getting there is NOT half the fun" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/getting-there-is-not-half-the-fun/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Reporting for Duty</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Haidan District, Beijing There’s a building a few blocks over from my Hotel room that has strobe lights on top of it. It’s tall enough to require them if the building were in a flight path, but there are buildings as tall around it, and they don’t seem to need strobe lights. Hmph. So, I close the hotel curtains all the way. If I strain, I can still sense the strobe, but with the curtains drawn and my eyelids closed, it doesn’t exist....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2007-10-15 12:00:00 +0800 +0800">15 Oct 2007</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Reporting for Duty" href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/2007/10/reporting-for-duty/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/in-china/page/3/>« Prev</a>
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