Back again

Ok, this 22 hours over and 22 hours back every two months is a little old. I expected to still be in Nanning for the next 8 months or so but, since I only have a leisure visa, I was required to leave the country. I told a Friend that They kicked me out but the truth is that China is only re-newing essential visas. This is due to the Olympics and you would think that Nanning would not be impacted since it is nearly 2000 miles South of Beijing. But my sense is that China is a little overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of visitors to their country. In the past they had to deal with perhaps 50,000 visitors in a year including individual tourists, tour groups and people like me who come to stay for extended periods. But with the Olympics I think that they expect numbers in the Millions. In the past having a leisure visa was fine because I simply went to the visa office or the police station and they would stamp a renewal on it. But this time they said no. The reason? A one word response; Olympics. The gentleman did not speak English so the remainder of the explanation is known only to Bao Zhu, who started getting very upset. So here I am back in the USA and wondering what to do next. Well I am having a booth at the Santiam festival in Stayton Oregon to promote my book and sell signed copies of it. For those of you who won't be attending you can only buy the unsigned copies at www.everettede.com. I am also working on my cash flow sheet sales and have reduced the price to $24.95 as an inducement to sell more of thme. They may be purchased at www.cashflow-ez.com But the most interesting thing that is happening is this blog. I was going to do a collaboration with my translator, Deng Hui Jian, or Lucy Deng by her English name. As you may know the family name is first in China. At any rate I opened a new account for a blog so that she could enter her version of the same blog but it did not work. So she opened her own blog which can be viewed at www.liveinnanning.blogspot.com. She will write from Nanning and I will continue mine from the USA.
I would be happy to answer any questions that anyone would have about China from my perspective or about the blog. My email address is everett.ede@gmail.com . And I am sure that Lucy feels the same but I will let her give you her contact information. And if you are traveling to Nanning you should contact her for translator duty. She has an excellent understanding of the English language. She even gets upset in English sometimes.

Tsi Jien for now.