Chinese weekend

Ok, so basicly just an overview of the first weekend here in china
sat was more of an orientation day, kinda with just general chatting in the morning followed by a bike-ride around the local area. But this bike riding is hardcore, like... if u want to pass a car or cross a street just look for a vague opening and just ride in front of cars and hope they stop for u
or to get acccross an intersection just ride in the general direction and kinda do a bit of a weaaving pattern thing...is hardcore. As is driving (not that im driving but taxis and stuff) like 3 lane highways become 4-5 lane as there are no real road rules/lanes/even directions. To turn is like on a bike, just head in the general direction until u hit the area u want, without smacking any bikes along the way...its chaotic. fun to watch tho =D, o yea also on the bike ride was a mad market where they sold food and stuff (it was a local market not a touristy one) so like ppl were shouting mad asianness everywhere and like selling all kinds of random things (and not so random things), got some fotos, have to post them somewhere eventually but like frying fish on the floor and selling buns that were still steaming (and other seedier things like raw whole chickens) and mad hand made noodles (dunno bout hygene, but they looked mad) and there were random trucks parked throughout the whole place that were piled with cabage, and stacks of ginger and garlick in a corner somewhere, kinda kul really, also explored some of the side allys and stuff, kul stuff
after that went to a clothing market place and a place called the Village. the market was like a fairly standard tourist market with butloads of the same stalls selling he same clothing but ther was some mad stuff there, Jus got a kul coat and i was considering getting a 3/4 length trench coat, but considering the shocking exchange rate decided against it HOWEVER when we got back to Simons he had a spare he was about to give away (and it was real) so iv now inherited that =D
ok and the Village is like... well it kinda feels like world square (place in the middle of the city) cept its a bit bigger, it is a western kinda place with legit stores and all, had one of the flagship apple stores there (looks kinda like the sydney one with extentions) and a mad addidas store where u can design your own shoe which u can then buy (for some rediculous price) which was kul aaaaand yea.
food was also good though we have been having more western food then asian, but went to a place called home away from home (thats the actual name of the resterant) which was good for asianness, and also had some korean BBQ last nite (sunday)
during sunday itself went to church with Simon and Bridget which was kul, its kinda like a very mini hillsong (kinda) tho its all expats (foreiners) so basicly all white guys and gals =P
since it was designed for an older demographic it was a bit heavier than im normally used to but it was still interesting, also the music team had the maddest drum, like, its a square box, about the height of a stool (mabe a bit taller) which u sit on and kinda just drum from between your legs and stuff, and u can make sounds of the bass, snare and wateva the drums above the bass drum are called. It was awsome. After went out for lunch then in the arvo Jus and i went down to the olympic park, which was fairly epic, the birds nest is very kul, the girders that make the next itself are HUGE like MASSIVELY HUGE, so yea that was epic, (and very photogenic) the water cube was a bit more anticlimatic, it kinda looked better on TV really, but still kul, also took some silly fotos, but still good =D
anyway
thats about it for now =D
fairly epic really, this is gona b one epic trip to document =P