they're on to me!

eep!

i was blocked out of my blog for a few days. yikes. it seems as though maybe in small towns i'm going to have more trouble getting stuff posted. if i ever have to abandon ship completely, i'll have no way of sending word. and on monday i'm off to a smaller town again for three works to do some wwoofing work. wwoof stands for world wide opportunities in organic farming, so you can sign up and go live and work on farms all over the world, and in return you will get fed and have a nice(?) place to sleep while you are there.

i wwoofed in india last summer. i was pretty interesting. under the wwoof contract you are only supposed to work 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, but i was working more like 12 hours a day -- every single day -- and, i'm not joking, all i had to eat was bread and water and some cashews, which i had brought along with me. that was by my choice though: i sort of refused their milk straight from the cow and the spicy oil soup that were making me sick. i was so buff by the end of those two weeks. and it was in the middle of nowhere india and no one for miles spoke any english and the women i worked with were all over 50 (i think, i couldn't ask them of course) and i wasn't about to peeter out --oh no-- i was strong. i held in there. and i had a thing for the little old grey-haired shepherd who wandered around the villages and we found a cobra and had to call a snake charmer to come collect it.

i don't expect this experience to be quite so trying, since it's in a larger city, the workers speak some english, i'll be sleeping in a house with electricity, and i plan to eat more than just bread and nuts. the work will involve something with vegetables, that's all i know for now.

and, good news, feast your eyes on this:

that's right. it's the trendy, new, e-kingo car.
but more than that, it's a picture!











and so is this!
















and this!










i'm going to set up a photo website later tonight.
i just realized i've been on the computer for way too long and i'm burning daylight.

so off i go to play in chengdu, eat lunch with some monks, and hang with oliver's friend, dani, who will show me the hearing center in chengdu, where oliver used to work.

and p.s. note to derek stiles: when i was at the post office a few days ago, two workers behind the counter were playing spider solitaire . . . two-suit spider solitaire . . . that's right.