Another year in China
Why is it that between the span of two months China decides to block Facebook forever? I could pay for a VPN but then China might decide to block them too. I will stick to what I have been doing and tweet and blog when I feel like it. Which is often but I just never get the chance to sit down and do it.
Another year in China. I get another chance to see a little more of Asia. I still have yet to see the Great Wall of China but I will be flying/railing to Beijing at the end of January to catch my flight to Tokyo. I came over from Toronto to Beijing, too, I already feel closer to the Great Wall, don’t you? Unfortunately, I won’t have time to linger in the city. I don’t even have time to renew my passport at the embassy. I should make time though. I’m going to Tokyo! I’m ready to burn a serious hole in my wallet. Sui, if you read this, e-mail me, I want to meet up but I don’t have your e-mail address and Facebook is blocked behind the Great Firewall of China.
Three weeks of vacation for Chinese New Year. One week in Japan. Two weeks in… ? I have time to decide. I can’t even buy my flight to Beijing yet because it’s so early. I could ride a train over instead, I hate going to Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, it’s such a long drive, the train station is much closer. I don’t think I saw any fast trains to Beijing though, so it will be at least a 10-hour train trip. At least it’s shorter than my flight over from Toronto.
October 22nd, 2009 at 09:29
You’re still there? Come visit me! =D
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:25
come visit me too…
October 26th, 2009 at 05:11
@Sui:
I wanted to contact you but Facebook is blocked here and I don’t have your e-mail address. :( E-mail me. It’s on my Facebook profile. I’m flying over to Japan in February for my Chinese New Year holiday.
@Will:
Did you move to China already?? Where are you living?
October 27th, 2009 at 10:52
Will be living in Beijing starting the 7th.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:52
also try to find and download freegate to bypass GFC.
October 28th, 2009 at 01:30
November 7th? That’s so soon! Have you found a job over here already? I’m flying to Tokyo through Beijing on January 30th for the Chinese New Year holiday. I haven’t bought my return ticket yet, maybe I can buy a ticket to stop by in Beijing. I need to renew my passport at the Canadian embassy anways. :p Which part of the city will you be in?
October 28th, 2009 at 17:43
No, don’t have a job yet, but I’m going anyway. My apartment will be in chaoyang north of chaoyang park by the 4th ring road.
October 30th, 2009 at 05:30
What kind of job are you going to look for when you’re here?
I tried out that FreeGate thing. I can’t figure out how it works. I didn’t try very hard though. I’ll take another look at it later. Make sure you download it before you get to China. The firewall blocked most of the websites that seed it.
October 30th, 2009 at 14:26
no idea, i was wanting an IT job, anything, software hardware networking but how things are looking now, i’ll take a teaching job.
yup, got it downloaded. try h i d e m y a s s .com see if it works in china.
November 2nd, 2009 at 07:49
My friend tutored English in China on her off times. I think teaching is a good option. You gets lots of holidays. :p There’s a lot of Canadian/American schools in China. I wish I remembered the name of the British Columbia school in Shanghai. They pay Canadian teacher salaries in China. Do you know anyone in Beijing?
That website is blocked in China. Go figures.
November 2nd, 2009 at 21:34
Nope, don’t know anyone in Beijing. Just going to go and let fate take hold.
November 4th, 2009 at 07:46
Wow, China is so fail. Your blog is banned now or at least inaccessible for the time being. lol
December 12th, 2009 at 00:51
http://will-lin.blogbus.com/logs/53579746.html
January 31st, 2010 at 11:08
Hey Karen =) I can’t believe you’re in Japan! =) You’re still quite far. Do you plan on going west? I just read your wall with the “Sui, if you read this, msg me…” lol Oops. I’m a little behind… can you tell? Anyways, I hope to meet with you!!! You can msg me at suiinjapan@ezweb.ne.jp — it’s my phone email. =)