I'm going to China!

But as my friend pointed out - it's like going home lol. Kinda true. Growing up Canasian I probably experienced alot of things asian. Like drinking the green grass jelly drink and trying to get the jello chunks out of the can at the very end. Or suffocating through the smell of durian as the parentals ate it. Or enjoying the sugarcane juice out of the real sugarcane!

random thought: SMELLS - The body shop body-butter reminds me of certain legs of my life. Why? Because that's what flavour I brought during that trip! Don't judge. Olive reminds me of Disneyland and Mango reminds me of China. I single whiff of that stuff brings back flashbacks. I plan to add to my collection, slowly but surely - I'll have a scrapbook of smells by the end of my life! Just for me (...wasn't that a title to a book?)

random thought #2: my dad approaches me today asking, how do you type? And I respond: huh? Then he states that he uses one finger to type on the computer but I type using all my fingers - I told him he has to learn, there is no memory trick - I then reminisced with him the exercises they forced us to do in junior high. he then shook his head meaning "ya, I'm not going to waste my time with that." - I'm glad the junior high teachers taught me something so valuable...

I asked my dad if he had any relatives in China - he then threw me into this elaborate story about how his dad's relative had two wives and that one wife had two children and left one in china. He didn't find out that he had relatives in China until last year. I still don't know if I understood him correctly or how I'm related to these "relatives."

On my mom's side - I think my grandma's brother (maybe through a second wife as well but I'm not too sure lol) lives in China somewhere - where they speak Fukienese (which by the way is a dialect they speak in China - yes, it looks like a swear word but is pronounced foo-kin-nees.)

I'm looking forward to visiting China again - especially since my family - including aunts in Edmonton, keep on threatening that they'll visit me while I'm there... I just hope I have the time to tour them around if they do come!