Reverse Racism and True Friends

So I was in Taipei for a total of about 4 days...and was subject to a reversal of racism. I was the outcast, I was one where people would cross the street at night rather than walk on the same side of the road as, I was the one that got the bad table at the restaruant...I got a small taste of what being rosa parks (or anyone that has been subject to racism) is like. Being a white male I really haven't seen racism directed towards myself...I have seen racism but never directed at me (except when some poor soul thought I was native and decided to call me like 20 derogatory names). Well I am proud to say it sucks, but it is refreshing and gives quite the perspective at the way we preceieve things in our own little worlds. As much as we think we are not racist, as much as we give evey benefit of the doubt and all that jazz to another race we always have a little smugness that we are better in ourselves....I don't care who you are it has happened to you at one point where you were walking in a bad neighbourhood and a person of your race walked past you and you were relaxed and then a person of a different race walked past you and you slightly tensed...however miniscule this was it is still a form of racism. Watch the movie crash and you will see what I am talking about! Anyway I have no thoughts on how we can fix this..maybe everyone needs to go to a place where they are the ones that recieve sub par treatment and realize what the other siode feels like and we will all come to understand each other that much more!!

on to more positive things....Travelling I believe is the best way to find out who your true friends are, who the people that truly love you are. A true friend will treat you like no time has passed when you come home. they might ask "so give me some sotries" and then you will just chat about random thiungs and everything will be the same. They are the peopel that will toast to you while youre not their, they are the ones that willl deliver flowers to your girlfriend and drive her to a massage appointment while youre gone (thanks again chisholmn you really are a great friend dude!), they are the ones that acctually miss you. I feel like you know a true friend when you have left somewhere for a long time and you come back from not having talked for the whole period and you immediately fall back into old paterns...anyway this is a cheers to true friends...those tossas and rippas and wankas that will stick with you whether you are there or not, through the drunk times and the sober times, the everything. To you friends I am ever grateful!!

trip update: I am in sydeny. Its expensive as hell. Have had one day of plus 35 and the next 2 have been nothing but clouds...tomorrow barrett gets here and its supposed to be hot hot hot so I am thinking beach it is (but I was alsdo thinking beach the last 2 days it just never materialized). Met up with chels and having a blast doing nothing with one of my best friends (one of those true friends I was talking about) and have just got doen pricing out camper vans that I plan to purcahse very soon (as in tomorrow hopefully). This is costing me highly so I gotta run y'all.

From the one in australia they call "Mr. Mustache ride" ....as I am rocking the ugliest handlebar mustachde to date!! atleats the mullet hasn't followed...cept it would look fashionable seeign as aussies wear that for normal!!!

Peace

p.s. MISS MY LUB SO MUCH!!!