I made it to Changsha, and it is taking me a few days to adjust to life and the food, dealing with a little of Changsha revenge. It's a relatively big city, with a lot of lights on the hotels, casinos, restaurants, but only about one traffic light. There are huge traffic circles and you really feel like you're in frogger on the streets. There is a native talent though, I think, one has to stay put when the cares are coming at you and they will go around. Nerve wrecking to find out.

Some say Changsha is like las vegas, boxing, gambling, and big blinking lights everywhere. The first night I went to a bar called SOHO, just to remind me a little of home. Had a nice mix of old school hip hop, and also a kareoke, stage which rotated around the dance floor. Oh yea, and they have the largest Ferris wheel in the all of Asia in the center of town. Strange huh?

The campus is in the center of the city, a little greenspace on campus, but not much around it. There's a KFC and MC donlads on just about everyblock, and I am down the street form the Walmart, which I have to admit is quite convient. Very chinese, like if chinatown were in Walmart.

But people do not come to Hunan for the weather or the beauty, hunan people are known for spicy good food and friendly the people. It is also a cradle of national pride with Mao coming from here as well as 7 of the 10 top generals in the PRC. I began in the hospital on Tuesday in the acupuncture department. I get to practice my Chinese quite a bit, although I also have a translator. At Hunan, they have a major for English and TCM, to build an infrastructure for the overseas education, so the translators know TCM and English fairly well. The Chinese are particularly obsessed with comparing the USA and here. If you want to see some cases, check out my other blog.