I miss you too!

Have you ever cried after seeing something so beautiful? This was my face before it was shocked by tears. I know I'm a big loser. But with a green tea at the top of a mountain on a sunny day looking at this picture below (but in real life) for an hour will do crazy things to you.
Lijiang... My new home... English teaching jobs anyone?

BEAUTIFUL Lijiang. wow.

take a moment...

look again...

wow. The morning ritual in Lijiang. Tooth brushing :o) (on the street)
It's sad... but true. DIRTY toilets in china galore!
Mmmmm... Duck tounges... and YES I did eat this one! Go big or go home!

Interesting translation...
We stayed one night in Kunming and I wish we could've stayed longer because on the one night we were there I met soooooo many people in our hostel and some little kids tried to tie me up and throw me off the roof the building. But their arms were too small and their mom didn't let them so I was in good hands. (see picture above)

What are you looking at?! (peacock at random big tree tourist location. I settled for this tour spot because on my second day of biking around Yangshuo I got lost and couldn't find the Moon Hill rock climbing spot I was looking for. At least I met this bird thing :o)

Need I say more?


Hey chums!!


I'm sorry I haven't been around for a few days.
Things have been busy out here in China and my time to the internet has been few and far between. I managed to find an open opportunity after everyone went to sleep.


Since we last spoke I arrived travelled from Guilin to Kunming to Lijiang.
The train to Kunming was about 20 hours. An experience I will NEVER forget.

As per usual I am constantly being overwhelmed with the differences of this country. Every place we go has it's own unique character. The food of Kunming is AMAZZZING!!! People are afraid of Chinese food because they don't understand it or have false interpretations of what it actually is but if you sat down to the same meal I had the night I was in Kunming I guarantee you no matter what species you are Chinese food will be your new favorite.


I heart you all!!! HEART!!!


- Spikey Mikey spreading UNITY... worldwide.

Dance battle in China (mikey vs. chinese toddlers)

Mikey battling kids about 3 hours into our bike ride in Yangshuo in a random small village along the river side.

Round 1: Mikey tries to create a soul clap, kids get confused and eventually give up.


Round 2: Kiddies come strong with a routine combo and chinese singing. Some stiff competition!

Round 3: Mikey take the kids out in the last round. Sorry kiddies but Canada has to represent!!!

The battle was close.
I'll leave it for you to judge in your comments!!!
Who to

Hope these videos actually work.
if not at least you got my last blog posting (you guys are getting spoiled with all this posting!)

ENJOY!

M to the I to the K to the E to the Y

Yanshuo. my new favorite place.

Me and Johnny about 1 hour into our bike ride (it had just begun)

Driving between endless mountains for a 4 hour bike ride today. Somehow we made it back on bamboo rafts down the river because if we didn't find these rafts I don't know how we would've gone 4 hours back in the other direction. Sometimes luck is on your side.
An amazing small village that we had the priveldge to stumble upon. really shows how people can live truly happy lives with a very basic standard of living. Not out to get new cars, just out to raise healthy families.
Some kids at a local playground (bad joke.)

Climbing the rice field mountains of Longshen. Once again... UNREAL.

Hats off to the Li River! (between Guilin and Yangshuo)

Need I say anything about this one? and if you're wondering ... no i didn't try it!

One thing that amazes me about CHINA is just when you think you've seen the most beautiful scenery that exists, the mountains, rivers, rice fields and even wild life prove you wrong.

Scenery for days, and I hope it never ends.
I've never felt so at peace with myself and the things around me.
People in Yangshuo have it good. There is no such thing as rich people here. Everyone gets by and seems to be very happy the way things are. I love the family vibe out here, so nice.

I've been doing lots of hat tricks for random little kids and they seem to love it.
I battled 3 five year old girls in dancing today in a small village. I showed them whats up.
I didn't know what they were saying and they were asking me for money so I just started dancing and then we battled. It was very wierd. If I can figure out how to post a video I will because it's quite hilariously ridiculously awesome.

After a 5 hour bike ride today on the mountains we are just about to go out for some drinks and relax. I can't wait to sleep! :o)

We are staying at a hostel called the Yangshuo culture house. It is quite amazing as well. We live here with a family who cooks us breakfast, lunch and dinner. They also teach you taichee, chinese calligraphy, cooking and sooo much more all for the cost of the room. The hostel costs us $10 Canadian per night with all that fancy stuff I mentioned included. Pretty sweet deal!
Plus the owner is AMAZING and he said if I moved to Yangshuo he'd help me start up a business here. Hopefully we can start up some branches of UNITY world wide in the next few years. Now we have potential contacts in the Phillipines, Japan, UK, Yangshuo, Guangzhou and soon to be other parts of China.

Anyways I seem to be rambling but I truly hope you are enjoying my blog as much as I'm enjoying posting it.

peace and UNITE!

- Mikey
LOVING it
in Yangshuo, China

Guilin... Beautiful.

The best kind of caves to visit.








they are... sleeping. Menu picture. don't worry I didn't order this.








WAHAHAHAHHAA







My sweet new hat


















Our Classy hostel closet.






















Good to know.



















At the top of a Guilin mountain

























I made this old lady's day. She was collecting water bottles so I chugged mine and gave it to her. Wierdly awesomely awesome.



















Why I love Guilin.












Hey Blog Folk!

Just wanted to share with you my first experiences in China in Guilin for our first 4 days in China. Off to Yanshuo soon. Thank me later for this because the internet here is SOOOO slow and uploading pictures is quite painful. Especially at 1am after climbing mountains all day.

Mock conversation between you and I:
Thanks Mike! (you)
No sweat chum! (me)
I can't wait for your next post! (you)
and I can't wait to share it with you. (me)
(conversation over)

Food... AMAZING.
Sights... UNREAL.
People... LOVE TO STARE.
Lost... ONLY WHEN YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE.

Enjoy the view!



Peace

- Mikeeey

Arrived in Guilin

Hey Familia,

I have arrived in Guilin, China safe and sound.
Today we saw some surreal mountains that pop up out of nowhere.

Our AC didn't work in our hostel last night so we sweated up a storm all night, but we figured it out for tonight so it shall be all good tomorrow :o)

I will post pictures another day of the mountainy goodness.
Just wanted to throw up a post that I arrived in China.

happy summer tanning!

peace in the east,

- Mikey Mike P.

Woke up WAY too early today!

Since I couldn't fully sleep in today as planned I am blessing you with another posting
Plus I got to do laundry! woooo to clean clothes!

Today I am going to enter a random break dancing competition in Kyoto, supposed to be a big thing out here. 2 vs 2 competition competing with someone I will meet today, setup by someone I met yesterday.

Oh the world of bboying (break dancing) is so small.
Anyways here are a bunch of pictures
(my very last batch from Japan including Kyoto and Osaka)

Kyoto, beautiful. Osaka... lets just say Im glad we were only here 2 nights, except our hostel was TOP NOTCH!
Anyways less talk more pictures

Peace in the east.UNITE!

= Mikey Mike P.




The massively busy subways of Japan! wooooah!!! I can't breath!









Random children in a budo school training to be ninjas











High flying in Kyoto
















Me and random Japanese Jr high school students in the peace pose

















Yummy



















Twisssssssty tree














Bboying in Kyoto












BUS ride to hell! (8 hours, no sleep over night bus! but we survived)


















You get what you pay for!












Johnny doing his turtle shot put!











The perfect fruit of Japan comes at a cost
Canadian price conversio
$100 grapes
$50 melon












Sake served from an Ostrich egg. Yummy.















THE CREW!












Happy face stir stick being watched by predetor
















Beautiful temples of Kyoto











Johnny's RAW beef burger *I was too chicken to try this but Johnny survived (stomach of steel)







peaCE!!!!!

Tokyo comes to a close (kyoto and osaka here we come!)

The truth.

Kung fu at it's finest

The Bitzer family!

Crazy hostel crew and 5 random Japanese girls in subway station

My modo.
Everyone always says Japan is ahead of the times.
This proves my point...

Getting sick is tough but whatever doesn't kill you will make you stronger!!!

On top of the world!

Bboying in Shibuya


After my many adventures in Tokyo unfortunately everything is coming to a close here.
A summary of my adventures...
- Seeings famous sumos
- Eating lots of sushi and funky Japanese food
- Going to a new york house dancing festival
- Meeting crazy hostel folk (UBER crazy... stories for days!)
- Chilling with Maddie's family
- Break dancing on the street
- Getting my first batch of stomach sickness (better now then in China! :o)
- Running through crowds and crowds and crowds of friendly Japanese people
- Getting an extremely small umbrella

Have a great week chums!

peace in the east.

- Mikey Mike P.