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Nice japanese people just helped us find our friends. I

I now weigh what my driver’s license says I do. Thanks for the diet SAS! Now time to party in Tokyo.

Just got off the ship in Japan. We had to wait 6 hours through customs. This is going to be interesting.

sleeping on the great wall was the coldest thing ive ever done. negative 10 degrees c! just arrived in shanghai!

It’s cold.

The toilets here don’t have toilet paper.

Just landed in Beijing!

Here we go! This is the port I was most looking forward to when I signed up for the semester at sea. I can’t wait to see all the interesting Hong Kong people, and experience what could be considered one of the world’s most free markets. I may even wake up early to see the ship pull into the harbor. They just told us there is a California Pizza Kitchen just off the jetway, globalization at it’s finest.

Sean woo and I bought 10 dvd’s in Vietnam, now I have all these new movies to watch! Clearly they are of the highest quality and produced in the USA, brand new not illegal. errrr same same… but different.

Another day on the ship. The seas are rough… really rough. They’re supposed to be worse tonight, but I hardly ever believe these announcements. The AC stopped working for a little while and the lights even turned off in my room for a short period of time. Almost done with my paper which I am becoming less and less proud of, but thats not surprising as the internet is hardly usable on the ship. Today’s big news was the drug tests. Every 15 minutes there was an announcement for another 5 students to “Report to the medical center immediately.” There were probably 20-25 people that were tested today, most of them were either close friends of Andre’s or went on the trip with him to Cambodia. It is becoming clear what was meant by “unknown medical causes”, we’re likely to have a few less students onboard once we reach Hong Kong. Only a little more than a month until I get to go home! Now back to more of this poli sci nonsense.