The adventures of a self-declared permanent student

Khanun, what have I ever done to you?

So Shanghai has issued a typhoon warning today for tonight & tomorrow (and I have to go to my first day of work tomorrow - that totally blows!). Yay! It's raining, but not torrential and it's really windy (but I'm also up on the 19th floor), so I guess you could infer that a "storm's a-brewin'".

What exactly is a typhoon?? Here's a link to the projected path as of 8:00pm here, or 8:00am Toronto time. I'll keep looking to see what it does tomorrow morning. I hate being wet. I love rain, but hate wet.

Other than that, there isn't much to report. I've had a couple of relaxing days, I figure next weekend I'll do some touristy things. I'm also planning to go away for the national holiday the first week of October. I'm looking into Xian, where the terracotta warriors are, there is some beautiful scenery, parks etc. The only problem is that I'm sure a lot of people from my program will be there (Queen's people) and I'd really like to get away from them for a bit. But maybe not, we'll see, it's a decently sized city, I can avoid them if I want to, right? I just like the loner traveller thing so much. I speak so little to anyone that I relish the silence. It's wierd, I know.

Oh, and I've also realized that I'm too big & fat for this country.
They only make girls shoes up to about an 8 1/2. For my 9 1/2 to 10 sized feet, I'm stuck with boy shoes or no shoes at all. Silly diminuitive Asian genetics! And the fat part: I'm bigger than a size 2, so anything in the cool stores won't come close to fitting me. I may be able to find a couple of shirts, but even there my chest is a little bit too "busty" (which is a total LAUGH!) for the fitted shirts. I should have brought more clothes with me. Oh well, more room for purses & DVDs (yes, the whole series of Buffy I got for less than 20 Canadian dollars!! Woo hoo!!!!!).

Well, this big girl is going to go do her readings. Have a good night, and think of me if the typhoon ends up on the news! (which it probably won't. This part of the world racks up 1/3 of all tropical storms - and the Indian Ocean racks up another good sized chunk - so it's pretty standard, although they've evacuated 100 000 people from Shanghai - again, in a city of 17 million - 10 in the metropolitan area alone - it's peanuts!)

posted by Jenn @ 8:51 a.m.