I prefer the focus on the butt. I mean if the girl is bent over at the right angle you can see both, so win win.

Since they blur the vag in Japanese porn why is she a fan of vag shots since you can't see anything anyways?

Okay fellas, stream of consciousness no grammar incoming:


The girls here are fantastic. Boobs are very "in your face" with the bra style they wear vs what Americans wear. I can't walk around my campus without seeing a female teacher who's super petite with a C cup or bigger in a tight pink blouse they wear as a uniform and the boobs just pop out like 3 d staring you in the face begging to be released from their textile prisons. I guess the style of bra that's common here makes them look almost angular and natural rather than round and spherical. There are 55 foreign teachers, ~250 chinese teachers, and of the 250 Chinese teachers, about ~80 are bilingual. Mostly the females, males have much less interest in learning English. Not exactly a mystery why. Middle and high school teachers are a few dozen white guys, a smattering of Chinese guys, and a whole bunch of Chinese girls.

But basically at the school, most of the Chinese female teachers are like 7.5, crazy hot even the ones who are aged 40+. Walking around town, however, the average quality drops a bit, but it's still far higher than walking around Tempe Campus at ASU or whatever. A few warthogs/fatties, but here they're a rare 1-2% minority instead of facking 40%. Chinese girl's fashion is weird as hell, but sometimes it works. No leggings EVER, but they wear some veerryyy short shorts and short skirts. OFC I've mostly been hanging around a local literal slum 1 subway stop away because my favorite Chinese muslim noodle place is there and my Chinese teacher lives there, but the same distance from my school as my favorite slum is there is a much ritzier area with a Taiwanese mall right next to a Japanese mall. Malls are different here; generally they have a supermarket and then Chinese build retail outlets around the supermarket and voila, you have a mall. My ghetto is like ultra mega ratchet ghetto dirt everywhere filthy public restroom 2 whorehouses within 30 yds of eachother, stray dogs and cats, tons of trash. 0 crime or drugs tho. The Japan mall part is basically like U.S.A in terms of modernity, the Taiwan one is like future sci-fi much more first world than anywhere I've been in the U.S. Retail goods are outrageously priced here. Restaurants are affordable and I was treated to a free meal at a Korean BBQ. I tried to pay and the two guys kept saying "No, next time. This time My Treat!". It would seem it's because I am a foreigner, but they had me in the back of the restaurant and I'd have thought they'd want to show me off. OK. Anyway, at the ritzier area ofc average girl quality goes way back up and fashion sense becomes goddess-like. Classy but sexy/revealing in just the right balance.

Subway system is elite, super easy and fast, but only runs until 10:30 pm or so. Fine, not into night life anyway and when I inevitably do get into it cabs are cheap.

I'm sick with respiratory something. Everyone gets sick when they come here from new bacteria and viruses/sudden exposure to hundreds of thousands of people in a span of a few days from increased population density. Most get stomach stuff. Not me. Respiratory. Gay.


I like the job a lot and I can see why teacher retention rate is so good. Not just "good for China", but objectively very good. Maybe I'll talk about that more later. Or not. WGAF.

OKay this is insanely incoherent, maybe some more high quality recaps later.

Welcome to the Triads.

props on following your dreams

You might be surprised about those boobs when you get the sweater puppies out of the sweater. Those bras pack a lot of stuffing.

The respiratory problems are no joke. I highly recommend some type of air filter for your apartment. Also I'd check this: http://aqicn.org/map/china/#@g/30.4506/120.1122/8z and make sure it's not too bad that day. (fwiw suzhou is red today) and if it's bad try not to be outside long.

When I arrived in China I was running 15 miles a week, biking and playing basketball. After a few years I was getting winded walking up a flight of stairs. (Also thanks rippetoe) I am now on inhalers for asthma and can function again but I'm not like I used to be. Doctor claims I can probably get most of my breathing function back, but still if you are highly affected by the pollution you do not want to wait. Start taking control of it immediately. Oh and also lung cancer in 20 years yadayadayada. They should have found a cure by then that's better than vacuuming your lungs.

Glad you are enjoying it.

Yeah I am calling BS on the cup size estimates. I am gonna need to see some pics with confirmation from loco and btm before I start to believe those estimates are accurAte.

Yeah I'm 100% convinced that either the school has some interesting hiring practices or there's a lot of stuffing/illusion going on. I'm going with the latter, Chinese bra style just has more pop to it than western.

Mine's not a lung thing, just the same type of **** where my throat gets sore and then I get a ****ton of mucus in nose for a few days. I can breathe 100% through mouth.

More logs pls

OKay first workout in China! It's been 16 days off lifting now. That's the longest I've taken off from any lifting whatsoever since late spring/early summer 2009 during my rippetard years when I had calf tendinitis from squatting in tennis shoes. Scrub move. Every other time I've had "time off", it's never been more than a week and I've usually snuck some pullups or pushups or bull**** upper body crap in somewhere. I was sick with a respiratory flu all week or I would have returned sooner. Still got a little cough, but not too bad.


shoulders+chest
OHP: 150x5x2, 150x10
Cable side raises: nfi how this weight is measured "7.5"x13x5
Incline DB: 30kgx10x3, 30x19
Flat DB: 30x10x3, 30x20
Chest press machine: 40kgx21,11,8,8
Pec dec: 30kgx 4 sets failure

I really haven't had any "holy **** China is weird" moments... until my first time in a gym.


This was the only squat rack I could find, and it's fixed pins which are just a hair too high so I will probably accidentally bounce off pins since after doing it for so many years non atg depth is going to be impossible. I'm just going to walkout an extra several steps and squat pinless and bail the weight behind if I fail. I don't think the staff will give a ****, people just throw **** around like crazy here. Their group exercise is weird as **** and actually incredibly sexy. It's in a room with glass walls. I will film.

Plates are in lbs, dbs are in kgs. A lot of the lighter dbs don't have labels and I will very literally have no idea what weights I'm lifting for a bit until I personally weigh and label them because god knows nobody else would give a ****.


It takes an entire 40 minutes to get from house to gym via subway. I should be able to cut that way down when I get an electric motorcycle


Syn, how do debit cards work here? I notice virtually nobody has debit card readers in businesses. Can I still get one for online shopping for western sites/to buy my chemicals or do I have to do some gay ass **** with alipay? Like how the **** do I just get on ebay/amazon/western union? My school doesn't want me to open a bank account, they paid the first one in cash and they said they open one for all the employees at the 2nd pay period and do direct deposit. No idea if the card they give us is good just for taking maney the f do out of ATMs or can be used as a real debit card.


bw was 89kg post training with shoes and clothes and I had Chinese style fried chicken+some sweet potato thingy and a ton of water pre training. So morning I might be 193-194lbs. Water loss from no hormonas for 2 weeks, glycogen loss from no lifting, muscle loss, and possibly fat loss because honestly it's REALLY easy to eat both clean+nomzie in China. I'll take a picture of the Gong Bao Jiding I eat for >50% of my meals now, it has elite macros+low cals but it's super tasty.


It'll be really easy to bulkathon on fried chicken+more noodle based dishes+trips to the local tesco when the time comes. I'm gonna go ahead and TMT+clen+t3+gh for a good 12 weeks and get to some kind of legit stage ready ripped kind of thing. At my leanest this summer I was still probably like an "8 weeks out" kind of lean.


I'm going to have a bro of mine translate for me and have a local Sichuan place prep my meals for me and pay them like less than $50 for an entire week LOLROFLLOL. That and I'll do morning shakes with eggwhites+frozen fruit again assuming somewhere actually sells these items.

lol@mixing kg and lbs so freely. Sounds like my log.

But really, I can't believe you're so light. That's insane to me. You're so insanely strong for your size dude. I'm mad jelly.

Enjoy China! Keep the updates flowing. And pics. Always pics.

I eat this every day. It's a double order of gong bao jiding. Kung Pao in the pre-pinyin romanization which makes 0 facking sense and I'm glad pinyin came along. Cucumbers, carrots, red chilis, and peanuts with breast meat. Very tasty, and the chicken+vegetables is probably no more than ~600 calories. I leave about half the rice because **** rice anyway. So prob 1.2k cals tops. Each order is 17 RMB or 2.75 USD.

My cafeteria food is also super clean/good macros, but usually not particularly tasty and it varies a lot by the day. Some days is gr8, most days its tolerable, and some days it's AIDsdeath.


Okay so I feel like I can't really blog chronologically so I'm just gonna talk about the first few hours in China + the job overall so far.

Okay so I got in at 2 in the afternoon. I'd sent plenty of emails asking what the situation was as far as getting picked up from Shanghai airport or how the **** I get from Shanghai to Suzhou. I got nothing because the guy who recruited me left the school shortly after I signed my contract and ran off with the old principal+some other teachers to open a new school. I was confused as fack and no email since I'm on gmail and google is of course blocked and OF COURSE I was too ****ing stupid to actually install the vpn software and service I paid for before I left. Pro as ****,

Anyway, after stumbling around the airport trying to figure out how the **** to get to Suzhou I made it to a train that took me to a bus stop where I got on and had a 2 hr journey via bus. Got dropped off at some bizarre spot and had to just get a cab and try to get directly to the school in ultra broken Chinese.


Got there and they were expecting me. None of the guards spoke English but the white guy who helped hire me left me a note explaining everything and left me my teacher's dorm key. This school has facking guard stations and it's not to keep the kids trapped in there like my school was. It's literally because parents/kids miss each other so much at the end of the day they go into a frenzy and they need lawmen to keep order because Chinese are facking ratchet people who would stampede and go nuts every day at this scene. And to keep out the children massacrerererr copycats and pedos and ****. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.



Ohhh kayyyy. So the job is gr8 and I barely feel like I'm working most of the time. I have a wider age range than I thought I would and have kids from grades 7 to 12. 7th and 8th grade are pretty bad as I've only ever taught adults. The 10th graders and beyond may as well be college freshmen except they pay attention more and speak less English.

I have to teach "elite boys" middle school business. The 7th graders for this have really low level english so I'm pretty much ESL teacher with some business buzzwords for that crowd. 8th are legit though and we're working through the IGCSE Business curriculum which is surprisingly hard for 8th graders, even if this wasn't their 2nd language.

Then I have some regular mixed gender "non elite" middle school econ which is pretty easy. Regular 7th graders English>>>"Elite Boys", but 8th grade "Elite Boys" English is>>> regular 8th grade??? Also some Chinese lady in charge of Elite boys program said "I think the boys will like you." I asked "Why?". "Because you are grrr!!" while she made a most muscular pose. K.

Then lastly I have some high school A-levels economics which is a little more challenging than a typical Freshman/Sophomore level principals of economics class, but is still very math lite and deals with strictly linear functions for... everything and never has any calculus and mostly does **** graphically.

Then I have my favorite one which is 3 days a week and dropped from 20 students to only 5 after the first day. A-levels business studies. This class is supposed to transfer as like horse**** MGT101, but jesus **** it's actually very hard for high schoolers and would likely be beyond the capabilities of many dumbsh*t AMerican white girl management and marketing major fckshts. It's something you might see at like a first year MBA curriculum and add the 2nd language thing and the fact that most of the test questions are inference/interpretation based and your writing ability actually matters and I can see why this is not a popular class. Same story last year; only the really motivated students want to do it. Especially after their dumbass foreigner teacher tells them that MGT101 in uni is a huge joke of a class that involves a lot of youtube videos about ipads and google and 0 critical thought and braindead common sense.

Right so only 5 students, 4 girls one guy. Of course there's one super attractive 11th grader in there with near perfect English who talks to me after class often and she wants me to form a QQ group for the class fufucck****fity **** **** **** no I don't even want to temptation of being social media friends with this young lady seeing her 3 days a week. Legit paging skeletor here. But age of consent is much lower and they have like no "teachers don't **** students" laws in china!!!111oneonone. Plus I dated a woman 9 years older than me and had a grope session with one 10 years older than me in an airport so my Karmic balance lets me go 9-10 years younger one time right?!! RIGHT!? RIGHT!?!?!!! Paging Skeletoorrrrrr.

I have like 18 periods of teaching every week and spend about ~40 minute prepping for each one and I plan on doing about 2-3 hours of grading tops per week. No real grading required for 7th-8th, 9th actually take the IGCSE exam so I need to grade for realzies to keep them on track and then 10th-12th are prepping for A-levels so same story there.

I have one weird class with ten tenth graders who are transferring to a high school in Madrid in 1 year and I'm teaching them Economics. When I walked in the first day ofc they assumed I was their Spanish teacher and I actually kept the joke going and spoke in mediocre Spanish for the first few minutes of their first class just to freak them out. Their Spanish is barely above my Chinese and I have nfi how these kids are going to make it in Spain at a high school with classes taught in Spanish. GLHF GOGOGOGGO. I'm taking it ultra easy on them with the economics since wgaf about A-levels you have 2 years to study and you're going to facking spain next year, phaggots. I "co-teach" with a Chinese teacher who has a seperate session from mine where they teach the same material I just did, but they do so in a mix of English and Chinese. Basically there's a lot of variance in fluency so some of the kids are 100% on me an some are more like 20% so they send the cleanup crew in Chinese. They only do this for the Spain kids and middle school, not my 11th and 12th graders. One of my co-teachers is definitely into me, her English is pretty rad. She's not great looking, but far from bad either and has a nice enough body. Also she loves to dress up nicely every day and that's a big plus. I'm still ambivalent.

There's 4 more Chinese girls who work in my actual office. One has even better Spanish than me and it's kind of crazy having somebody to practice my Spanish skills with in China. She's 31, sorta hot, but definitely seems older and just has a very worn demeanor. She advised me to be very facking careful speaking Spanish around the school in the event that an administrator hears me and they decide to dump a whole bunch of Spanish teaching responsibility on me for which I will surely not be additionally compensated. The other 3 I haven't got much to blog about. One has pretty big teds and is only 23 and teaches English. Haven't had much chance to socialize with anyone except the co-teacher and our middle school Chinese Spanish teacher.


My boss for middle school is one of the dudes who hired me. He's been in PRC 10 years, southern country boy at heart. He's wonderful, really funny dude and has some legit advice on transitioning from only having taught adults to dealing with middle school ****tardery.


I'm really normally so TLDR just type everything that comes into my head with little organization or editing but these are hard to write. I'll take requests on what you want to hear about to get me going instead.

If I don't like ASia for whatever reason and lose the desire to study in HK/SG and also don't feel like staying mainland, I will likely go try out Colombia for a while. I mean it's where I'm from and I'd blend right in and probably not even have an accent after a few months/years.

Welcome to India.

You are grrr!!

grrr def needs to be a S&F meme.

The guy you were contacting leaving and starting another school included, that has to be the smoothest first arrival in china I've heard of.

This sounds strange to me. Have you been going outside of your school a lot? I can imagine things being pretty straightforward/casual at your school, but once you start going out in public I'd expect to wtf at quite some things. How many children have you seen squatpee on the floor inside buildings yet? I once saw a woman hold her kid while he was taking a dump in a trashcan in a supermarket. When you gotta go you gotta go, I guess.


I honestly have no idea, I only used my debit card just for random stuff inside China and it was only hooked up with Taobao through Alipay (linked to my phone). Nowhere else. WeChat wallet is also becoming way more popular + easier to set up and lots of online (chinese) merchants are accepting it as form of payment these days.

The one time I ordered something through AmazonUS it got stuck somewhere in customs and just never arrived, so be careful. Amazon has a Chinese platform though called z.cn but it's pretty limited. Easy set up is a plus.

Afaik all Chinese cards work through UniPay as payment processor so your card should work anywhere where they accept that. Which is anywhere inside China and yeah all ATMs. But I haven't really seen it around online. You'll need a VISA I think if you want to hook it up to intl merchants. But customs can be a real pain. Lots of stuff gets lost and never found.

I'd be surprised if you manage to find frozen fruit and eggwhites. Unless maybe the latter if you start hopping around bakeries and ask if they have any to sell. Never really put much effort into finding it but I've never seen it in supermarkets.

Yeah that's the gongbaojiding you usually get in Sichuan-but-not-so-Sichuan places. It's a typical Sichuan dish for sure but they prepare it differently back there. No cucumber or carrots, but spring onions + garlic and way more oil and peanuts. Def not a low-cal dish where I always had it. But by far my favorite Chinese dish of all time.

This is what mine looked like. Damnit I miss that food. Will be back in Chengdu for 2 weeks in october though. Hnnnnggg



I always guesstimated that meal at 1000+ kcal and it's a single serving.

Clean I can get. But good macros? Do they serve any brotein at all? The boney stuff barely has any meat on it and it's always tons of rice carbs and some veggies and lots of oil/fat + barely any protein ime? Or do you see it differently?

Definitely way better than all the processed microwave crap everybody's so used to buying back in civilization. But there's a big shift. Chinese kids are suffering from tons of obesity. Sugar has found its way to CHina.

Some thoughts on girls staring you down or guys grabbing your biceps in public? How do you find the special snowflake dynamic as a foreigner in China? From what I can tell you don't really seem all that ecstatic about the availability of girls and you being relatively much more "wanted" over there? Girls won't walk up to you tho. Way too shy. But if you simply walk up to any girl on the street and ask for her wechat, chances are extremely slim they won't simply give it to you after 1 single sentence. Giggle included.

You should really visit Chengdu or CHongqing when you get the chance. Most beautiful creatures on earth. Mention Sichuan to any Chinese person and they will go "oh, beautiful girls!" 90% of the time.

Yeah probably not that ecstatic surprisingly just because language is still an issue. I mean I literally can't communicate with almost any of them outside my school. It's pretty awesome if you just make eye contact and smile they giggle and then hide their faces and can't stop smiling. Not like America where it's a "****off, weirdo. How dare you have the audacity to even gaze upon my majesty? You are a ****ing insect if there were thousands of you I would end all of your existances without remorse if I had the power" face. Way more stares from guys. I walked into the school after my arm workout tonight just now and the guards were like "omfg so swole1!!" and smiling broadly.

Bicep grab was only the one time in the internet cafe. "Grr" woman is pretty cute and has a british accent but the most grating voice I've ever heard and has to be at least 32-33 because she's been working there for TEN YEARS, but also clearly mirin the swole.


Definitely feels great to be the belle of the ball for a bit. I'd have settled for at least not "scum of the earth" to nearly every single girl I'm remotely attracted to though, this doesn't even feel like real life it's such a drastic change. Can't facking wait until my Chinese is good. From looking at everyone elses' experience, it seems impossible to really become fluent unless you stop working and study full time for a good 2 years, though. Which I almost certainly won't do.


K so yeah I lifted

Arms

DB curls: 16kgx35, 4 more sets to failure
Rope pushdowns: NFI weightx32, 4 more sets

DB hammer curls: 12kgx20, 12kgx15x4
DB skullcrushers: 12kgx13x5

Cable curl: NFIx5 sets failure
V-bar pushdown: NFIx5 sets failure

Weird curl machine: NFIx3 sets failure


I notice a pattern....

Looks like moneygram is in a deal with China Unionpay so I'm in the clear as far as getting creatine. I was worried about having to lift naturolo for longer than I want to because I'd have no usable payment method -_-.

You don't really need to communicate with them. The only two sentences you need are "Ni hao, ni hui shuo yingwen ma?" (do you speak English) and then whatever they answer you go "oh, ni you weixin ma?" (do you have wechat). 90% of the time it works every time.

As soon as you got that, communicating is childsplay. There's a built in translation function for both languages, just type in the easiest sentences possible. You chat eachother up for a couple of days and then you're good to go.

Oh, right, UnionPay, not unipay.

this is what I miss. Thailand sucks.

Speaking conversational chinese is actually very easy to pick up within a few months. With wechat it's also pretty easy to learn the most commonly used characters.

If you haven't already, download pleco it's the best translation app.

Yeah get wechat. Download all the cute characters, especially the ones with hearts in their eyes or waving IloveU signs.

I started getting random friend requests from hot Asian girls. No clue what's going on, I have picture with my girlfriend. Maybe they see Asian and they think I like Asian.

But yes bro, download the app ASAP. Best advice that idiot Syndrom has ever given.

Oh and if you just want to have some random sex with chinese girls download momo and figure out how to upload some pics of your biceps and mention that you don't speak chinese in your profile.

Doudouyou might be good in suzhou too but I have no idea as it varies so much city to city.

Got wechat, got QQ, got "Wo zhi shuo yi dian dian Zhongwen" "Wo shi laoshi jingjixue", etc etc, learned a few characters for figuring out what foods to order, got pleco months ago. I have not heard of momo though! Sounds promising. I guess another thing holding me back is that I don't want to dick over (heh) random chinese girls who want to get married and I'd rather have more conversational fluency before I actually start really trying to date because my pool will be so greatly expanded and I don't want to get stuck with one just because she speaks English well, then be locked out of a whole bunch of other options once my mandarin is not infant level. But if there's some broads that want random dickings from muscular foreigners then okay.

Still need an app to translate full phrases when I can't get the job done with pleco. Anyone have recommendations? The guard had a bomb ass one that worked really facking fast when I first arrived, but ofc I don't remember which guard now and the ones I've asked have nfi.

1.) **** no. The worst so far has been 15-18 year old kids spitting indoors in the internet cafe where I play DOTA2 like I'M a 15-18 year old kid. That and smoking indoors. No indoor floor urination/defecation and I can only imagine people would be horrified. Chengdu sounds much more 3rd world than here; maybe it's because of our very close proximity to Shanghai?

2.) I'm noticing sugary foods in large quantities are harder and more costly to buy here. Sugary drinks are even more ubiquitous but I can't find donuts/cakes/cookies/ice cream in anything but tiny sizes and for like 15-50rmb!! Probably a good thing for me staying in dece shape.


3.) God I can't even imagine... I feel like every single day I see more hot babes than I would normally see in a given 2-4 week period in the US. But this is probably mostly just increased population density and the fact that they are actually hotter/less obese is secondary.

Pleco can be a pain in the ass for entire sentences. Google translate is good for getting the meaning of a sentence especially if you know some characters and can see where it is screwing up and combining words incorrectly.

欧陆词典 is pretty good for entire sentences but doesn't have pinyin. It's pretty much just to translate a sentence and show it to someone and vice versa.

Edit: 百度 might be better