I'll be in China within a week. I got my plane ticket, my visa, my guitar, some books, clothes, what more do I need?

I want to get some gifts for people. I think it would be good to give little things to my coworkers. And the poor people who pick me up from the airport at midnight. I feel really bad that I couldn't get a better flight.

Does anyone have any suggestions on gifts I could pick up? Preferably nothing to expensive.

Oh, and before I can get to China I have to at least stay alive. I almost got t-boned at a stop sign yesterday. Then I saw someone in a white car go nuts on the highway. They started swerving across all four lanes, then fishtailed like mad (I actually thought they were going to flip) while their trunk popped open throwing all their loot in front of my car. They finally got it under control and pulled over. I almost ran over their back pack. I'm so glad no one nailed me from behind because I had to slow down quick.

Anyway, suggestions for gifts to bring to China?
( Here's a picture. Just because. )

So the most ridiculous things usually happen to me. I don't know why but they do. Yesterday I had two random things happen. First I was talking to an older guy. I think he said he was 45. In any case we were talking about why I was here. I told him I was here to study the Bible and he asked me if I had an Okinawa girlfriend. When I told him no he got all upset. He slapped my arm and barked out (in broken/mixed japanese and english), "Why don't you have an Okinawa girlfriend? You have a nice face!" I told him I was too busy and he yelled out "NO! You're a man!" Then he pointed out the universities around here and told me to go get a girlfriend because I'm a man. It was so funny!

Then later on in the afternoon I was walking back form school and started talking to a really old Japanese lady. She had to be in her 70s. She was way nice. At the end of our conversation she gave me two magazines and told me to use them to study Japanese. They were Jehovah's Witness magazines. haha! Amazing.

Why do the most random things happen to me?