UNI STUDENTS AND ITINERANT BUMS (Zhong Dian)
ALSO STAYING at our accomodation was a guy I shall call Bruce. He explained that he was writing a book on minorities in China. His turn of phrase was unhurried and carefree. He looked to be about late 30s.
We asked him why here? He said he'd been coming here every year for the last 10 years and quite liked it. He was from NZ and had made enough money from his last travel book to live here for two years.
Jo decided he was a bum who was escaping life. I don't disagree with that assessment - but I think most people at my workplace would like that lifestyle. We certainly didn't see him doing any actual writing.
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Old Zhong Dian is a Uni Student haven. You can wander from Cafe to Cafe, and Pub to Pub - bumping into people you met the day before.
We met two girls also staying at our inn. I'll call them Kate and Lara. Kate had done Environmental Systems at QUT in QLD and was now on holiday from teaching English in Japan. Lara was studying Mandarin in China and had done an Arts degree in NZ. They were travelling around China together.
Jo asked them how they met each other. I noticed Kate's head was shaved. They looked embarassed, and Jo asked, "So you guys met in an internet chat room?"
They knodded - "When people ask, we say we are - very close."
We asked him why here? He said he'd been coming here every year for the last 10 years and quite liked it. He was from NZ and had made enough money from his last travel book to live here for two years.
Jo decided he was a bum who was escaping life. I don't disagree with that assessment - but I think most people at my workplace would like that lifestyle. We certainly didn't see him doing any actual writing.
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Old Zhong Dian is a Uni Student haven. You can wander from Cafe to Cafe, and Pub to Pub - bumping into people you met the day before.
We met two girls also staying at our inn. I'll call them Kate and Lara. Kate had done Environmental Systems at QUT in QLD and was now on holiday from teaching English in Japan. Lara was studying Mandarin in China and had done an Arts degree in NZ. They were travelling around China together.
Jo asked them how they met each other. I noticed Kate's head was shaved. They looked embarassed, and Jo asked, "So you guys met in an internet chat room?"
They knodded - "When people ask, we say we are - very close."
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