Hainan (part one)

i'm in hainan! you wish you were here. twenty-seven degrees in the air and about twenty-two or twenty-three in the ocean. thousand-meter beaches with nobody on them but me and a constant roll of one to two meter waves. but how did we get to hainan? let me tell you, my over-curious friend! we took a plane. straight from nanjing to guangzhou (insert several hour long layover here) and then right to haikou. in the airport in guangzhou, we met joseph, our ultra-friendly, girlfriend-visiting, new zealand-living, freshman-year-in-college-but-i'm-still-a-pimp buddy. joseph came down and sat next to us in the terminal and we chatted it up until the flight finally left (a half hour late). when he found out we hadn't found a hotel for that night, he told us he'd see if his girlfriend could hook us up. she did. we stayed at a place next to her university (where she studies vocal performance, which is super-hot) for seventy RMB. that's thirty five a piece. that's about five bucks, my good man. they also treated us to a barbequed dinner and some pretty tasty noodles. all in all, i'm pretty grateful for chinese hospitality. he's gonna get whatever he wants when he comes to america. we woke up early, got on a five hour bus, and now we're in paradise.