Matt Matt Matt
How's it going Aaron?
Good. How you been?
Ah. Not bad.
What've you been up to? It's been a while.
Yeah man, time flies.
What are you up to next week?
You wanna do lunch?
Sure, Ok. I'm off tuesday.
That's good for me, man.
Alright. Uh, Fortune Cookie, 1pm?
Cool cool, looking forward to it.
hey kid you're surprisingly punctual yeah something I learned from doing your
mum yeah it's waiting for us oh yeah for this April yeah so high like to Shanghai
is already bigger oh you know you can get fish and chips to live at your house
yeah yeah let's go perfect you're gonna do that for let's all go and spend that
long yes like five years this we lived here together and time goes by faster
here in Shanghai dream tell me about it - leave back and younger like fight when
it's full fill up the whole evil just chill - I'll call whatever here but if
they might get wool eat I think for my kid what
sweet Aaron see the vanilla texture so long that you completely forgotten
Scottish slang come on give the swatch of your joke yeah chance perhaps up man
a change yeah right well if you spend more time
embracing the culture and not running off of the big city you could probably
be able to say okay what can can need a man Poe taking all the center
some other German Shanghai was I supposed to stay in Yangzhou forever
yeah well I guess we're not all kind for the real China experience real try to
experience what does that even mean what can you do in yang tour that you can't
do here I'm spending all my time hanging over for a drinking craft beer for one
sorry would wish you spend all your time buying fireworks and traditional tea
ceremonies all hiding out Hong Bao that mahjong tournament
yeah that's what I did all right so we're not being gawked at or feeling
oppressed by the many beer options what exactly do you get young too that you
can't get here I don't know embracing the culture
immersing myself in 5,000 years old swimming in the lake height something
the legs remember that yeah that was disgusting being able to go into any
register until happened to take a Christ King law I treatment I've taken by Joe
dinners on the rag Oh riding a motorcycle without a license oh my god
yeah for sure was something that's not waiting to happen though I
mean I preferred my little fake Yamaha scooter in the yarn under light safe
comfortable and I could touch the ground with my feet when I sat on it well I
guess sure it wasn't such a some type of trouble I'm pretty sure this is real
time real China has the placement well overrun with foreigners and the unit
at least we're real close resilient this is real people from tourists no I just a
tour is nothing my real gaming course no I'm insulted air people do you mean
salt-of-the-earth type of people no salted air people working hard salting
their okay get this from your lonely planet the visual is line is open
no one does it hadn't been for weeks you keep going on about this mythical China
it's a place that really fit where you're treated like suspicious no
friends well that's real China then I don't see
holes in Detroit that are also yeah I did China right did if the young Joe was
so great why are you here like I said my time no and I miss
Mexican food cheese for you he didn't even last a year before you ditched me
for the big city I didn't ditch you I wanted you to come with me I asked you
to come but you said you are happy in the Joe all our friends were there where
the great community we had to fight that the girlfriend we have good jobs do you
even talk to them anymore a system to all of them you know we chat works all
over China right maybe even the world you should look into this Stan moved to
Hangzhou got married John's and chungu and removed here last one lady contacted
you and you inaudible no no no I was going to respond and I forgot I didn't
know he moved here
Spencer still young to them no shit yeah I'm saying some amazing cause yours is
you're thinking it's got better yeah I'm serious you know I'm sure if
I'm sure by all means order and saying dude this is American Chinese food that
you picked mr. salted Earth Sun minor fellowships and ABC girl to make it more
authentic well if you Mexicans abused our country ah mija I seek a woman even
ma PO tofu shootie I am a valiant effort but my poor soul ha ha
Porto for tofu so so MA Porto Macedon right
okay woman you can help an intern with anything to drink
woman yeah yeah bass way d'etre zwei zwei drei
yes B so anyway we must be sentenced to life in Shanghai by now
yeah again oh thank you were much help what's that supposed to mean
but for someone who wanted me to move to Shanghai so bad what is it the third
time in a year that I've seen you do it acting busy like I'm doing the job of
three people right now it's I don't have time for anything else
and besides it's not like our jobs lined up what's that supposed to mean you're
an English teacher don't forget no no I mean our hours but you don't have
weekends off and then when you have off I'm working it you know my good friends
I moved here on a whim list with nothing more than a couple of backpacks 2,000
RMB then slip in a tiny little apartment freezing cold eating nothing but instant
noodles because we're too afraid to order Chinese eventually moving up -
lamian because it had pictures of the gold yeah an extant friends last week
any weekend any weekend to come out for drinks or dinner I like to think it
would this idiot only to think it would have risk getting up in the morning with
a hangover for work
actually yeah are you not working today why am I being graced with your presence
what did I do to deserve you ah English teacher we can't I'm taking some time
off
yeah and I might be taking longer officer it's their fancy fancy with this
career job takes time off gets promoted for it do you know how much money I
would lose by just one class though - I keep telling you there's plenty of
opportunity here in Shanghai no good jumps big in the corner - Jeff you keep
putting yourself out there like and you even speak a little Chinese ulema a lot
did you get right see already head of the game right place right time citizen
comes so easy to use I can see why you would favor easy to me the only
difference between me and you is I can't put myself out there and I got
opportunities as a result I feel like now I'm kind of thumb you got it all and
you don't even appreciate it appreciate what's there to appreciate there's only
so many times you can go out drinking on the weekend
now I'm kind of done by it are you going to go are you going to go back to the
States
that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard I just feel like it's a good time to
leave China a good time to leave have you even watched the juice me you're
Gomes on all arrays floor your aunt neatly ambiguous you're not going to
last a week about my ticket so I guess don't find out oh really
tomorrow
so I guess that's that
what you are doing but to say I'd like Shanghai give me so many opportunities
that I never would have had it but now I have and I can do this at home feel like
I can start my life slowly light beer isn't real
well but that's it just as life the people that you meet here in the
experiences you have here they're no less real than they are back home but I
just feel like I'm coasting here like people here are just existing but that's
what we said other than back home do you remember why we moved here
yeah we were backpackers we just want to have some fun we only needed a job to
pay for the beers no it's adventure but excitement it was something new a place
that would never been but when does it end
what do you have at the end of it
maybe I was just drifting along and enjoying it why do you think I made the
move to Shanghai so I came for something right I think it's a good move I mean it
might not be yong-jo but I think it's good please wait down - it was an
amazing day it was hurting me if you didn't realize they're not mean I loved
Angela I mean where else could you almost get arrested I'm in the bottom of
the district where else could you do like a whale more of a chase with a
bunch of guys like Mara chasing you for that yeah but it's funny now but it
wasn't at the time but what is really good time is to go around like do
alcohol you
so are you going to mess with me Shanghai anything I'm not sure like you
know you can't really predict these things you don't know what you're going
to miss it may actually miss them okay what I love this though the smog aren't
you moving - Ellie yeah but it's California's wrong
oh that's enough yeah oh dude when you get back please get a girlfriend yeah
I'll think about it you know if I were you have a goodbye that I get myself a
Kardashian and place good really no well I think I go to this women and this way
I there's no easy way to say this - I'm really going to miss you yeah yeah we'll
format
Alysha - dude I'm full okay we can't works internationally now so come on man
you know how as you leave tiny to drop off the map chances are I won't hear
from you and so Facebook tillage is my birthday
huh get it Ceylan hey John Wintle Manila ha all right man yeah light up here
okay legal English that's just something that you can't do in America all right
right so this way
it's going to be awesome dude subscrive your reason I'm so excited
hey hi bro well you do the honors all right
also yeah myself the new
fuck get here let me clean up right what
oh yes cold
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