Travel To Grow

Halloween isn’t exactly celebrated in China… at least not the way we celebrate it back home… there is no trick or treating and hardly any costumes to be seen anywhere in public but there are a couple pretty cool Halloween parties around and that’s where we headed on the 31st! I was pressed for time [...]

Okay I had a few more club experiences, and I remember them this time! Chinese beers are big. We started the night at this really cool BBQ place which sells 3 of these massive beers for 10 RMB… that works out to about 50cents per beer. As Matt and I were drinking at the BBQ [...]

One of the most interesting things about living in china is how rare foreigners are. There’s so few of us that it creates an effect with how the Chinese people perceive us. It’s what I like to call Rock star status. We foreigners are treated like slightly famous people, like if we had been in a slightly [...]

So I finally saw my real school and my real apartment in Shunde, and it’s totally awesome! There is so much more stuff around Shunde, and after being at Nanhai which is very secluded it is a very welcome change. I’m super excited about it, heres some pictures of the Plaza my appartment and school [...]

It’s time to shop! I badly needed a laptop to get back in touch with the world~The lead teacher dude Allen said he would take me to the best place for a laptop he wanted to buy a new psp also. We hopped on a couple buses and after about 20 minutes we made it [...]

Ahhh and then there I was in Hong Kong. It’s a really weird thing when you step off a plane, at least with me, I never feel like I really went anywhere. Its like you’re in Canada, you step into a box, watch a movie of clouds going by then you step out. The fact [...]

One thing I’ve been neglecting to talk about so far are the various shows that we got to see all along our trip. The most popular being Muay Thai fights and Fire spinning. Muay Thai is the national sport of Thailand. Before I came on the trip I had trained in it for about a [...]

During my trip I complied a little list called: You know you’re in Thailand when… -You take a swim in the ocean before breakfast -You eat rice at LEAST once a day -You ride in the back of an open pickup truck almost everywhere -Your no longer scared you’re going to die when you ride [...]

We had a little stopover in Koh Samui, so what better than to go Bungee Jumping!! Bungee jumping was something I had been dying to do forever and this was the perfect opportunity. I have to admit I was a little nervous but it was one of those things I decided before the trip that [...]

The first trip we went on from smileys was to the monkey park. I’m a huge fan of monkeys, I think they are incredibly awesome and cute so I was pretty excited to go. The park was really cool, it was basically a big open area surrounded by trees and they provided us with little [...]