Art History

If you already didn't know, White does not equal speak English. White can mean German, Russian, Italian, and a whole bunch of other languages.

I've made the mistake in Shanghai and here in the Philippines one too many times.

The good news is "English is the connecting language" as the Canadian dude at the bar put it yesterday. And I've seen people who speak Shanghainese try to speak to other non-Shanghai Chinese, realize that they can't understand each other, then speak English.

Yesterday we went to a bar called Cocomo's, it is a pretty cool, right on the beach scene. Met 3 dudes from Canada and 2 dudes from England.

The Canadian guys didn't know the English dudes, we didn't know any of them, but conversation just sort if started rolling. It was funny- all 5 of them are living in China teaching English- and apparently all non-Chinese bail to this area often for Chinese National holiday. Oh, and there was a Chinese chick hanging around too....don't know what her story was, but she taught English too.

We all walked down the beach to find a football and a frisbee to play some game where you try to knock cups off a stick? But it never came to fruition. Some of them ended up back at the bar, some of us on the beach, and one dude- nicked named Frodo Baggins, went to play soccer with some locals. Check out the pic- he really does look like Frodo Baggins- and he sounded just like him!

The frisbee ended up on the roof of a restaurant- and one if the local kids climbed up to get it. It was the same kid who tried to charge me $15 to use his skim board. Punk. Anyway, we gave him the frisbee and bounced.

Sarah and I were going to go home, then come back and meet up at 9pm with everyone- but it started raining really, really hard- thunder, and the power went out.