So I'm not sure I've mentioned it before, but Duncan (my roomie) is a very outdoorsy dude. He loves to hike, backpack, and rock climbing. Duncan ALSO happens to be president of the new recreational rock climbing club at Northeastern. He even brought his own shoes to China! So needless to say he's been working me over since we got here. Before we had even landed in Hong Kong he had found a climbing gym in Kunming he was going to visit once we got here. He did that on Wednesday with Jonathan and had a blast. So, today when the two were set to go after class I joined them and off we went deeper into Kunming than I'd ever been. Basically, the gym is down the main road one over from our hotel and down a ways until you reach a massive mall. A day pass was about 20 bucks and shoes are 50 cents to rent. It's seriously worth it! So I was able to spend my Friday evening climbing (bouldering specifically) in this neat little gym learning all kinds of cool stuff from Duncan and watching him kick ass on overhangs. Seriously, the man is a monkey. I was also able to talk to Jonathan about what it's like to be in the founding class of a fraternity, since he was in the founding class of Delta at Northeastern five years ago. All in all a fantastic afternoon. Apparently they just redid the routes too, and I found I could comfortably do V1s and some V2s. I'm headed back Monday and Duncan is going to push me to keep going and I'm excited to! After that, the three of us grabbed some dinner at a Korean restaurant and met up with everyone else for a while hanging at a craft beer pub. By the time I got back to the room I was beat!
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