China? Teaching English? Waaaaaaaaaa - I'm impressed.
Can't imagine what it'd be like to live in China (or for that matter, what it'd be like to serve in the US Army in Afghanistan... You're having one hell of a life !
...I won't ask about your girlfriends again. (Although when all of us - or most anyways - Girlies on the Girly Board mobbed you and boasted about having had dirty weekends with you, it was so very funny...
So glad you visited London in March, it was good weather then and I'm pleased to hear that you enjoyed yourself. It's an incredible city. I loved NYC, but I only lasted less than a year there as I didn't have a green card and didn't wanna get married. I need to live in the centre of the universe but be able to travel often. I'm doing a beach, in Kerala on the west coast of southern India next, 6 weeks next Jan-Feb. I reckon I need to learn to meditate...
And yes, I live right in the middle of London, in Westminster, Maida Vale W9. The only reason I can afford to live here in that I lucked into social housing. When I returned from Canada and my brief stint in NYC, I qualified for subsidised housing just because I had a Brit Passport (and I've got a smashing flat near the Portobello Market. I was extremely lucky). Nowadays there are no council flats left other than tower blocks in Deptford and you can't get one unless you're a single teenage mum and deemed needy, straight out of jail and therefore homeless, or are a refugee straight off the boat.
Are you doing photos of China? Can you post them? You're a wonderful photographer. That would be worth logging into GetBig regularly for.
Maybe we ought suggest that Ron consider a member's photo log/blog section? The only reason we were able to appreciate your fantastic pix from the front line in the Middle East was because we Girlies loved you and STella/ButterBean very kindly did a 'top of the Girly Board in Bold thread' just for you.
Now you're in the Far East. Far out !
You've still not answered my very serious but somewhat silly query about how they get back down from the top of the mountain. Noone ever does a documentary or writes a book about that. It always ends when they get to the top and stand there posing. I really really want to know: Do they get helicoptered off?
It must be harder to get back down than climbing up and they never show that bit. I'm funny like that, I always need to know the whole story... The end of a book frequently disappoints me.
with mad love
Linda
xxx