wu life 227

WU LIFE 227


TOO BAD SAM TRIPP HATES DAVE WEI

shanghai still sucks,.. but sam tripp has been the best host times ten thousand, million, billion, trillion.

sadly, i had a head cold for the majority of my stay here. i think between the typhoon i endured to get here, the recycled train air, all the dusty climate control, all the second hand smoke, the pollution, and the city grime,.. i put my immunity system through a rough ride. funny though,.. it seems that every time i come to shanghai i come down with a little bit of nastiness. even when sam comes to visit me in the wu, he seems to host something from here that gets me all nasty too.. shanghai and i just don't get along.

sam the saint, however, wasted no effort in making sure every thing i could possibly need or want was taken care of. each day we are eating amazing vegetarian love food, each day there was tons of fresh water and watermelon, each day we shared amazing and enlightening conversation, and each outing was a public display of tremendous idiocracy. daniel reid would certainly approve,.. such good fun. the craziest part, was that aside form my initail trip here, sam has fit the bill for every single expense. it was really hard to receive such generocity, but sam demanded that i give in to the love. such a good brother.


VISA TROUBLES VANQUISHED

sam introduced me to a gentleman by the name of magic. his name is magic because he works wonders with the visa. i simply gave him my passport, and told him to fix it.. no crazy paperwork, no physical examinations, absolutely no red tape what so ever. five days later, after an express order, my visa was complete. beyond that, i now have the connection to get year-long, multi-entry, business-class visas.. i should never have another issue with immigration again. have i mentioned that sam is a saint?


GOOD TIMES

despite the nastiness that is shanghai,.. i still managed to enjoy some amazing times here. the first big thing was checking out a beautiful temple on the 15th. we got to see monks holding a service and everything,.. it was really nice. sam and i also checked out a reiki group and got hip to some really interesting reiki juice.. that was also really cool. we also checked out a beautiful buddhist family and had an enlightening conversation the mom.. simply amazing. OH, and we also got to fire the grid and participate in a worldwide healing meditation.. that rocked too. then last night, we got to have a little fun at the reggae night downtown.. skank nasty.

today, i need to pack up and get ready to head back to the mountain. if all goes well, sam and i will be on the 26 hour train ride back to the wu this sunday. then,.. by monday we'll be back on the mountian stacking chi.

that's it for this week. thank you all for the love.. i will be sure to respond to all the lvoe letters as soon as i get settled back into wu life.

-zi rong