3.5 days to go! I'm so close to freedom...

i was talking with my friend keith about our thoughts of returning to school. one of the common things are that since we both took years off for school, we're definitely in a different mindset now, and going back to school could really mess us up. i'm so used to just sitting at home when i want to, and going out when i feel like it. it's not that i've become lazy, but that I've become accustomed to doing things when i want, and when i feel like it. Once school starts again, everything will change. I won't have time to do anything i want. if you don't get to do what you want, eventually you go crazy.

that's what i loved about china btw, my dad organized it so that the tour guide had us until dinner time, and then after that we were free to do anything we wanted to do. in some cities, that was the best time i had, like in Shanghai, when we took the subway (extremely efficient!!!) and went around town to check different spots out.

subways were so cool there, you could see from one end of the train to the other, all the cars were connected and no walls! the doors were a lot bigger too, and the coolest thing, there were markings on the floor for where the doors would be when the train stopped. i love that because in TO, you always stand at a spot hoping that the subway doors will be there in front of you when it stops. you either end up looking really smart or just really stupid when you end up being between two doors, right in the middle.

but this way (the way Shanghai had theres) was it stopped at designated spots. that way you could line up in an orderly fashion. they also had a policeman with a loud whistle to make sure people didn't step past the yellow line (or step on the yellow line, as you TO people know about).

what else... the stores in the subway, kinda like PATH in toronto, were all very organized, booth after booth after booth. we stopped at every single one looking for fake watches for cheap..

it was funny, my brother, he got a fake rolex, and then two hours later, we were on this ferry in Shanghai, and he was oogling his new watch when all of a sudden looking carefully he realized it actually said ROLIEX on it! haha.. that was so funny! I also got a fake rolex, it's a nice one though.. even my grandfather couldn't tell the difference, and he has a real one too! he even said mine looked nicer than his!