more pics from my parent's visit

Beijing art district:

Waddup world

Being sick away from home is so much wacker than being sick at home, where being sick sucks anyway. I thought, this is it..This is how they will find me. In a pool of my own sweat, in a dirty ass apartment in Shanghai. DEAD! It was bad for like three days. Fever, chills, all that good sickness. BUT, a lil Chinese virus can't stop me! I mean, it totally did for like a week, but I'm back in business. My friends took care of me, brought me food, did my laundry, washed me haha, that would have been crazy, but that didn't happen. My friends were great though and did help me get better, by offering to take my possessions upon my demise. It gave me the willpower to get better and not give anything to anyone muahaha! So as you can see by this post the virus is still lingering and I may have gone a little crazy from the high fever I experienced. 

I looked at 5 new apartments today. None of which really gave me that special feeling. I still have three weeks to find something which is like a year Shanghai time when it comes to finding apartments.  I'm probably going to look at places again tomorrow and Wed, and even Thursday if I can. Hopefully I can find something nice and affordable in the next week or so. 

What else can I say? Summer in Shanghai is tough. The humidity is no joke. Things smell, germs fester, and streets flood. August is here and the days are getting dark early already. At 6 it's still light but you can feel evening. This is my first summer out of NYC since I was a little kid and would go on vacation with my parents to Connecticut. No kelbasa bbq's or beaches for me this year. There have been a few rooftop parties, but Shanghai really can't do it like Brooklyn can when it comes to that.  

My hair is long and curly, which I'm not too sure about. I'm skinnier than I was in NYC. You just can't eat out here like you can back home, but I feel healthy and still sleep good at night. My style game really isn't on point out here. I don't put much effort into what I look like, good, or bad you get stared at just the same. I just bought the new J depp gangster film and am almost finished with kafka on the shore. I can't front, i am a slow reader, but I have been enjoying the book a lot and recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.  When I was living in Tokyo (it's about a boy living in Tokyo and then other parts of Japan) my friend Josh recommended it to me and I finally got around to it here in Shanghai and am glad I have. It's very entertaining. 

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-Nate