Interview sometime in the next three days possibly headed for china

SO I just got offered something local here which I took because its literally up the street like 20 mins max walk to work... I just wanted something to supplement some more income while Im still privately teaching kung fu... But I will be talking to a person to possibly take a job in my friend Emily's town... Im not sure which it is because her myspace says Chaozhou [which doesnt show up on the map so Im thinking that its a different dialect so Im taking chaozhou to mean guangzhou... who knows... the pay rate is expected to be between 15-19 an hour non taxed plus a place to stay rent free [meaning the school will pay for my housing]... plus it'll be over there... then I can go see kate and annie in thailand more easily, nobuya in nara, adrian in akiha, and seira in chiba, I have to figure out where ayumi is staying these days. If I stay here for however long, I will be introducing a little brother into my world of kung fu. He found me on myspace and is currently in South Carolina just beneath where my mother lives and he wants to meet and study with my masters until he goes and meets me in china. SO yeah, thats about all she wrote for today~Q

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travellersky on

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lol.,lol, you are in China, you didn't tell. Chouzhou is a place, not Guangzhou.

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drunkenrabbit on

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tell me then where on the map that I find Chouzhou, Ive been looking, Im trying to find out the area that the school would be in and if there are any kung fu schools near that I can study at, while im there teaching... Im actually supposed to go to wutangshan [I think cantonese call it Modong] to study as well, but that will have to be full time because I don't want to study there and teach at the same time.

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travellersky on

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I support your visit to Wutangshan, which was listed as the World Heritage in 1994, and you should spell it Wudangshan in China, so Chinese could undersatand what you refers.Please remember it, Wudangshan although you foreigners spell it as Wutangshan according the dialect of people in that area.

The second things you should know is Wudangshan is located in Hubei Province which is about an hour by air from Guangzhou in Guangdong Province.Many Kung Fu schools was established in Wudangshan ("shan" means mountain, more accurately, it is Wudang Mountain), but the facilities of these schools are poor, most students training there are aimed to find a job as security or soldier. I hate these schools, for they corrupt the local officials and caused great damages to the temples. In 2003, a Kongfu School who "rented" the places around a 600-year-old temple carelessly caused a fire due to the electric wire and burned down the temple to ash. The Hubei people or the people belows Huanghe River in China is known for their cunning. And the people in Northeneast and general north people is much straightforwand and trustworthy.

All in all, i support you have a tour vist to Wutongshan, but do not have training courses there. You should choose to stay in big ciites, for example, Wuhan City (1209 KM to Beijing, 1104 KM to Guangzhou), the capital of Hubei Province. You may find a foreigner taking Kong Fu training course for consultation.

It is winter, Chaozhou maybe colder than Guangzhou, but warmer than cities outside Guangdong Province.

The Chinese New Year of January 29, is coming soon, many peasant workers are about to return their homes from Guangdong Province, that means crowd and difficult ticketing.

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drunkenrabbit on

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Thanks for the info, I do know that Shan denotes that the place is indeed a mountain. Whatever your feeling for or against, I have a personal invite from the head priest of Wudang himself. I met him when he came to the states, and I do not feel that he and any of his students are AT ALL in any way shape or form bad or shifty people of character. I will train with them. Wudang is a sacred art, I've been studying a lineage of kung fu that was created there, and I will continue in that fashion, no one said that the life of a kung fu man was easy. Thanks for the history lesson but as an asian language major I know most of the history already... but still feel free to tell me more, youre bound to let me know about some area that I don't know about or that we didn't study.~Q

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travellersky on

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I feel happy for you've found the trustworthy training partners. I did not mean to offend your friends. For i am from Hunan Province, which borders the Hubei Province. I learned about the Temple-burning event happened in 2003 on internet that day, and kind of in an irritated mood. Anyway I believe in your friend, since they speaking the alike dialect as me, and grasping the most mystery and sophpicated Kong Fu.

I will pay a visit to Wutongshan from Guangdong, via Hunan visting my mom at home, to Hunbei.

You are Asian language major, God, that must be very difficult.

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drunkenrabbit on

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yeah it is difficult, but fun and I love it... here you only have to speak one asian language to do it so I'm lucky in that sense that I made it through the japanese courses.... lmao~Q

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travellersky on

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lol.,lollllllll. Chaozhou is another place in Guangdong Province, not Guangzhou.

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drunkenrabbit on

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OK great finally getting somewhere so chaozhou is in guangdong? ok that tells me at least that there should be some Hung ga schools or Choy le Fut or something of southern style around seeing how its in canton... how far is Chaozhou from Futsan?

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travellersky on

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About Choy lee Fut: The birth place of Choy Lee Fut is Jiangmen City, which is on the south of Guangzhou city, and about 120 KM to there. It will take you about 1.5 hours there by bus. Following is the school:

http://www.choyleefut.com.cn/chinese/dulihandbu/qianyan.htm

Futsan and Jiangmen both are near Guangzhou but far away from Chaozhou. Futsan is about 20 km to Guangzhou on the south. Futsan or Foshan means Buddha (Fut or Fo) and Mountain (San or Shan).As the place where the original family home of Bruce Lee locats, many Kong Fu fans there. It is a good place.

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drunkenrabbit on

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This is good to know... Is it 1.5 hours from Chaozhou, or 1.5 hours from guangzhou to jiangmen... I'm just looking for kung fu schools in my area [which would be Chaozhou at this point]... I want to find out all the styles [different fists/family styles] that are offered before I choose where to study.~quinn

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travellersky on

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Guangzhou, Futsan, and Jiangmen are almost on a same longitude, in an order from north to south like this: Guangzhou--(20km)--Futsan--(100km)Jiangmen. Chouzhou is on the eastnorth area more than 500km to the three cities. That is to say, it takes you 1.5 hours from guangzhou to jiangmen, and 5 hours from guangzhou to Chaozhou by expressway.

You may try to set out in the night, so you can sleep away your boring hours in bus or train.

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travellersky on

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map: http://www.kftour.com/news/2004/8-18/135113.html Chaozhou is the easternmost green block (stand for city) in the white area(indicate the Guangdong Province)in the map. It is about 500 KM from Guangzhou, and it will take you about five or six hours to get there by bus through express way from the Capital of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou City. Chaozhou City is close to Taiwan, about 200 sea miles.

Chaozhou City is less urbanized than Guangzhou, Shenzhen or his neighbor Shantou. But it is famous for its food "Chaozhou congee". There are many stalls sell the foods of Chouzhou flavor in most cities like Guangzhou,Shenzhen and other areas in China.

The dialet of Chouzhou people differs greatly with Cantonese or Putonghua. I couldn't tell a man speaking Chouzhou dialet is Chinese or Japanese, they sounds so much alike.

The last thing i wanna tell you is that Chaozhou is the hometown of Li Ka- Shing, the man who owns 70,00 milion pounds or 120,00 million dollors, the richest people in HONGKONG. Li Ka- Shing was born in July of 1928 to a poor family in Chouzhao, and later went to Hongkang when he was 14 years old (1940).

Welcome to China! have fun!