Since I've been in Shanghai over a week without internet, I've been journaling my adventures free hand. When it came to my first official post I already had an array of anecdotes I wished to broadcast, but decided I should start with the blog's name. A few days after arriving in Shanghai, I needed to purchase a local cell phone. I, being ignorant to the practices of Chinese telecommunications, came unprepared without a passport. When I inquired if my IL State ID card would sufice, they looked at me confused and took the card. They spoke ZERO English and our conversation mostly consisted of me making obscene hand gestures until they gave me a registered SIM card and a bill. On the registration form, they had listed my name as Jesse White (for our non-IL readers Jesse White is both an acrobatics enthusiast and the IL Secretary of State). I did nothing to protest this and am now living in China under the alias Jesse White. I will be assembling my tumblers in the coming days.
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