paris to beijing

the plane was so old that at any given point it was a wonder it wasn't falling out of the sky.

during my stop-over in shanghai i did the biggest fart in the history of human kind since our diversion from the ape's genetic branch 6 million years ago. if there had been officials there, we could have seen a new entry in the guiness book of records next year: biggest fart, ondrej at shanghai international airport, 05/03/2006.

afterwards i felt like someone else. a man addressed me in french and said i had a very french face and i thanked him profusely.

as soon as i stepped out of the airport in beijing, all the arabic that i had forgotten in egypt came back to me as clear as day.

the scale of beijing is something else completely. i feel like a leggo-man walking around in a giant's land.

i am staying near wangfujing. i just ate four white frogs impaled on a skewer. when i bit into them they squirted their inside-juice all over my jeans. i was furious.

i'm suffering from a mixture of culture-shock and sleep deprivation. to bed bondy!