ugh, dandan and i are trying to plan our travels for the month of may. the first part of the plan is actually going really well, dandan is very agreeable about planning, and we've been able to find compromises for everything. but the last leg! the travel to tibet, is quite the pain in the ass. the problem is the other people that we were supposed to meet up with. specifically, this one chinese guy. because the girl that was going to take the train with him cancelled, he has decided he won't do it alone. first of all, grow a pair. second of all, for some reason it is our job to solve this for him. unfortunately dandan, trying to be nice and sort of joking, said he should meet up with us in yunnan and go to tibet with us. and he took her up on the offer! we've been trying to reneg, because honestly neither of us has ever talked to him before, and we're not keen to spend a whole month with some guy we don't know. and now it seems like he's even trying to back out of tibet and just do yunnan with us, which is crazy because the whole reason we even want to travel with him at all is because dandan thinks he knows a lot about tibet (i think she's wrong, but she's scared about travelling there alone, which is fair enough). but so now he keeps saying, well let me call the people i know in yunnan, because i only want to travel for 3 weeks. and we keep saying, no, you should really go to tibet, it will be so much more interesting. and i guess it sounds bad to say, but i really don't want to spend the majority of my trip travelling with chinese people. they're very different about travelling, very into staying on the beaten path. and they definitely don't chill w/ hostel people, which is what i want to do. i know dandan will be cool with that stuff because she has great english and is cool with westerners, but who knows about this guy. oh well, our plans seem to change every day, some we'll see how this works out. i'm so excited to hit the road tho.