In Venice

 

Take 1: before the lines were written we tried to do it improve stylez.

Take 2: the line has now been written and propped up on a beer bottle off the set and Karrie has decided to become director instead of actress

 

Take 3: Karrie got the location right but forgot who was who.

 

Take 4: Karrie again has gotten the location correct, but Steve messed up his lines. I am trying to direct him, unfortunately I have had a little to much to drink. 

Take 5: Someone burped in this video...making it no good. Steve forgot his lines!!

 

Take 6: I tried to take over...everyone gave me a hard time about hogging the camera. Steve got his first line correct but got the case of the giggles. Bonus video: 60 seconds of improve from Danny.

Take 7: We took a break after a couple takes and came back to try again many more beers later. Steve went to a shoe-street earlier that day. He believes that Karrie has bad knees (even though it was only one the whole time) I cannot explain the 'mangy-monkey bars' Ask Steve.

 

Take 8: This was our final take, Steve decided that there should be music playing during this video. I don't know why we didn't think of adding back round music earlier. 

CAST 

Karrie Auger: Actress, cinematographer, lighting crew

Danny Jordan: Actor, screen play, producer 

Steve Cordan: Actor, dancer, beer drinker 

Jenny Tam: Director, lighting crew, audience

Thank you all for investing your time in watching these videos because you will never get that part of your life back. Enjoy. :)

Departing Bagkok

Arriving Sunday night it has already been 4 days in Bangkok, after I picked up my girlfriend Karrie at the airport we went out to have a great night with new found friends. Went to 'The Club' on Koh San Road twice or should I say two nights in a row.

The food here has been great, I have had a chance to eat yummy Pad Thai's, fresh fruit/shakes, street coffee and Indian food (which I haven't able to enjoy since Beijing).

Must resist buying everything, since carrying everything around is going to drive me bonkers. All the clothes I have seen are just so beautiful.

Tomorrow is the end of our time in Bangkok and we are off to Kanchanaburi to see some waterfalls and whatever else we feel like doing.

Just a short catch up of what we are up to.

Much love.
<3

The Bangkok Gang!

Arrival in Bangkok, Thailand

After 5 hour flight from Changchun to Guangzhou and another 3 hours from Guangzhou to Bangkok.

I hopped on the bus into town, walked around for awhile until I found a hostel that I quite like called NAP PARK. This is where it is all going to begin.


By that time it was already about 1am. I put all my things into the locker and before I knew it I had already started making friends.

I had forgotten how easy it was to make friends with travelers since living in China for so long. Everyone was so friendly, I chatted with them about music, life and all sorts of random things until about 4-5am.
Soi Ramburti near Koh san rd has so many markets I really want to go shopping but I don't think that it is a good idea since I want to stay in SE Asia for as long as possible to avoid coming home to Edmonton in the winter. I will have to fight the urges to buy things!!

Traveling alone for this little while until I meet up with Karrie tomorrow night at the Bangkok airport has me thinking I enjoy the company of others just to much to travel for a long time alone. I guess we are always doing some soul searching with out even knowing finding out more and more things about ourselves.

I have also realized that if I never stay in one place for long, all my friendships are bound to be temporary in the end. I never thought that it would bother me until now.

leaving China

Limbo in China

I am sitting in a Cafe in Guangzhou airport at the moment it is 1750 I left Jilin City this morning and I already am home sick for it.

I never thought that I would say this. I'm gonna miss China, the people, the familiarity of Jilin. I have gotten so use to being in China I'm not even sure what kind of culture shock I am going to have to face when I get back to Canada. Luckily my next destination isn't Canada and it won't be for awhile.

I really am going with the flow now, since I am not working anymore.

Woohoo Traveling and Unempolyment sure go well together. Like Peanut butter and Jam.

Life has thrown me a handful of curve balls and I don't even know what I can even say about it all since I don't know what else is coming my way. I would like to think that I have matured a lot from my time teaching abroad.

Soon I will be sitting in Thailand, Bangkok waiting for my dear friend Karrie in another foreign country.

Good-bye Jilin

Estabon the guardian of the house.

I know it seems crazy to say this now but I never thought that I would see the day when I would have been living abroad for a whole year. I know that when I had first started I thought that time was moving so slow...now that it is time I feel like the last year just blinked on by.

I arrived in September during the H1N1 scare, started meeting people at a Halloween party that no one dressed up for. Thanksgiving with tons of friendly strangers that are use to new faces, Christmas with some new found friends. New years was a druken fiasco with new friends and a nearby local foreigner bar with a live band. I spent my first birthday (24th) in my apartment I think I invited every single person I had met in Jilin. Chinese New years (spring festival) the year of the Tiger (my year) was filled with dumplings, drinks and lots of fire works.  Canada day wasn't much but we Canadians met up with the American's to shoot fire works off all on the same night. I celebrated my schools 10 year anniversary, Mid-Autumn festival and Dragon Boat day with some very awesome people.

I had started falling in love with teaching and is really considering the idea of getting my bachelor of Education and take teaching as a career.

Two weeks before I am finished my contract I had to have to have a good party to say good bye to all the awesome people I have met along this part of my life long journey. So this entry is me reminiscing about good ol' time had by all.

My beloved art class.

Our last class together.

Cosplay at Bei Shan

View of Jilin

After math of Canada day and Independence day.

First time horseback riding since Jr.high.

My one and only time at the driving range. I learned that  I am not good at driving the bar as far as I physically can.

My 24th birthday party.

Before the flood.

After the flood.

Zong Dong mall...there is a very small amusement park inside.

Typical China.

The river in Jilin.

G+ one of the bigger KTVs in Jilin and it was only a couple blocks from my apartment.

Mobile food vendor.

Me playing bar tender.

Fruit platter Chinese stylez.

Last week in Jilin also Mid-Autumn day.

Mr. Turtle.

This was the only picture from the Jilin museum that was worth posting.

Bruce the bat we rescued from the street, he didn't make it through the traffic accident.

Chinese people fall a lot?

School's 10 year anniversary.

I know that I will think back to these times as one of the best life learning experiences and a great path I had decided to take in life. I hope everyone there has as fond memories of me as I do of them.

Osculate

After living in China for a year
my departure date is creeping up
I have transcended into the real Jenny
No more barriers holding me back from being me

I have suffered out loud and in silence
I have complained and laughed in several degrees
Been wowed by Chinese culture in positive and negative ways

I officially have no more fears towards living my life
not saying that I am not often lost in my day dreams
about what I want to do in the near future

I have learned to relinquish control
becoming a product of my own environment
Embracing everything thing that I am
all my good traits, flaws and idiosyncrasies

I will be honest with every single person I come in contact with
Respecting every individual that crosses my path
I won't hold back anymore
Letting out everything that makes me who I am
Have faith in everything i believe in
Holding a torch to my morals and values

Live everyday like it is my last one
Because life is short

Dance like no ones watching,
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like no ones listening
And live like its heaven on earth.