Finally here…as I suspected, Tumblr’s blocked from China. It is a blogging service, after all. *sighs* Unfortunately, I don’t have an adapter for HK outlets, which makes me wonder why plugs/outlets aren’t the same everywhere. It was raining in Hong Kong when we left at 11:45, and we arrived in Haikou at 1…and was subjected to 34 C heat! The immigration area and baggage claim weren’t cooled, so I was sweating as I was processed. The guy at the counter asked if I knew Chinese - in Chinese - and I said “No”. Which would imply that I lied somehow, right? Took a while for me to get processed - which alarmed my mom a little. Anyway, I’m at my uncle’s apartment/condo and (thankfully) cooling down. The one really interesting thing in China is that most places don’t have central cooling, like how it is in the West. Instead, there are small units that cool down the air in each room. Having central cooling would be expensive for most families. Haikou is never constant. Every year, there’s something new. 5 years ago, I was in the same place, staring at a field from my bedroom window. Now, there’s another apartment complex right across from us. The city is expanding out, kinda like Houston in the US. Moving away from the center of the city. There are finally signs with proper English. There is also a few nature preserves around the area now. And I just had some to-go sushi that was actually decent! Oh, and before I forget, there’s a golf course right outside of Haikou now, that I saw from the airplane window. Better go. I’ll post some pics later.