孙悟空

So I am about to embark on an epic journey that will take me to the end of the earth…or just the other side of china..something like 4000+km（四千公里多）to a place called Kashgar or Kashi.Near the border of Kashmir region, Afghanistan, Tajikistan,Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia.Ｉwill be back in 3 weeks…October 6 差不多。Ｉ　ｍａｙ　ｏｒ　ｍａｙ　ｎｏｔ　ｈａｖｅ　ｎｅｔ　ａｃｃｅｓｓ　ｏｆｆ　ｉｎ　ｔｈｅ　ｉｎ　ｔｈｅ　ｗｉｌｄｓ　ｏｆ　Ｃｈｉｎａ．　Ｗｅ　ｗｉｌｌ　ｓｐｅｎｄ　ｍｏｓｔ　ｏｆ　ｏｕｒ　ｔｉｍｅ　ｃｒｏｓｓｉｎｇ　ｔｈｉｓ　ｂｉｇ　ｄｅｓｅｒｔ．Ｇｏｂｉ．　　Ａｐｐａｒｅｎｔｌｙ　ｔｈｅｒｅ　ｉｓ　ｌｏｔｓ　ｏｆ　ｓａｎｄ　ａｎｄ　ｖｅｒｙ　ｆｅｗ　ｐｅｏｐｌｅ．　　Ｔｈｉｓ　ｉｓ　ａｌｓｏ　ｔｈｅ　ｆｒuｉｔ　ｓｅａｓｏｎ．．ｓｏ　ｔｈａｔ　ｍｅａｎｓ　Ｉ will be gorging and will be very happy.
There has been a bit of staring here. Today I was riding my bike to the store and some guy passed me..but after passing kept turning around and staring at me for prolonged tracks of time..this seriously affect his ability to keep the bike on a straight course as well his ability to avoid obstacles.Alas, he did not crash.
Last night I had an interesting conversation with my host mom. She started talking about the hair on my arms again. Last time it was about how because I have hairy arms, I am not cold. This time it was about how the hair on my arms is similar to a TV character, gold in color. Then she got her dictionary and looked up a word for me, evolution. She then proceeded to explain how the Chinese were the most evolutionary advanced and how people, like me, were less evolved because we still have hair like monkeys.
Today I went on a bike ride to a market I had heard about a few days ago.Turned out to not be bad place, not at all like the famous silk market where I was harassed and grabbed repeatedly by salespeople. At the silk market nearly all of the shop keepers yelled out things like “I have special price for you” and “Good friend come look at my shop.” At this market, 天意市场, no one spoke English and there were only other Chinese people, big plus. I bought a backpack, not too big, actually rather small…but now that I have packed it seems to big.Either way it is was a great buy. Don’t know if anyone knows of O7LEY, but they make great products and this one is EXTREME, in fact every bag at the stand was EXTREME but they were different brands..like The North Face, something in Chinese with The North Face logo, Jack Wolfskin, Lowe Alpine, and an assortment of Chinese brands. Some people left for their epic journey this evening and I saw them wheeling out huge bags, poor saps. My bag is really just a book bag….but it does say it is 45L..it is wrong but I have nothing against O7LEY.Here is another view of my room