shenzhen!

well things worked out for the most part. i dunno why the itinerary online said it only took an hour to get from shanghai to shenzhen by plane- maybe i just read the thing wrong.. but it took like 3.5 hours to fly here. i was confused because i kept waking up and i was like why aren't we there yet? shenzhen taxi's are ridiculously expensive- they start at 12.50 and go up by 2.40! (i thought shanghai was expensive at 10 going up by 2.... because in beijing it starts at 8 going up by either 1.3 or 1.6). so i took the airport bus into the city and took a cab to the hotel. checked in, the room cost $30, but i was supposed to share it with bboys from macau... but we got back to the hotel after the battle at 2:45- bboy glacial (the guy from shenzhen) reserved two rooms for us and i checked into one. so when we got here all the rooms were taken- there were like 6 people... so they decided all to go get a massage and there's a room where you can just like sleep in for the night- so i got stuck with this room to myself, which kinda pisses me off because its so expensive. meh. but the battle went well- 3v3 bboy battle and 2v2 popping battle, i managed to tape almost all of it even though you weren't allowed to tape :). tripline crew (shenzhen) took the bboy battle (2nd place rhythm attack [hk]) don't remember the name of the popping crew. anyway, it took me like an hour walking around trying to find the stupid club though, the map i had put the club on the exact opposite end of a street, so i was really mad because i showed up like 1.5 hours late, but its ok- i probably didn't miss much and it saved me from taping useless stuff. a famous bboy from the states was judging it- bboy ronnie from full force/super crew (i actually haven't heard of him but i'm not super into the bboy scene. but he's a pretty big deal). i had dinner with him and glacial afterwards- had a really good conversation with him, he was totally into my project and everything- he's currently dancing for maxim magazine- they throw parties across the us so he dances at all of them... but yeah we were talking about dreams, journals, dream journals, and lucid dreaming and stuff like that. it was a pretty crazy conversation. so yeah. i don't know what i'm going to do tomorrow- either go straight to guangzhou or hang out with glacial and ronnie. it depends on whether or not i can just check out and leave my luggage in storage here. i'll wake up and figure it out i guess. ok, need to get some rest.