Wolfie's Dream House

Yesterday, I had the privilege of co-haring at the China Hash. It was a lot of fun and a real rush. The lead hare was Sheep Shagger, and fortunately, I did not get to see why he's named that. He's actually a guy from New Zealand who I found out used to live in Aspen, CO. Small world. Anyway, when 2:45 came around, we were off to set the course for all of the hash's brave participants. I basically just followed him for the first 30 minutes or so and carried the flour because he knew where the course was. At one point, I could see and hear people about 100 meters away from us but they were on the other side of the valley so we weren't in real danger of being caught, although that would've been pretty funny. After about 40 minutes, then it was my turn to do the haring by myself. This was a lot of fun, and luckily I remembered where to go. The only issue was at the end when I was running through a bamboo farm and the owner was out there harvesting and he got very mad at me. I just disregarded his comments, mainly because I had no idea what he was saying, but it sounded angry. The issue was after, when the other runners followed my trail, and the farmer got more and more frustrated. He actually swung at a guy with a big scythe! Then the police came and luckily the whole matter got sorted out within 15 minutes or so. It was pretty crazy! The other funny thing was that the initial checkpoints we set up at the beginning of the run were so close together that people were getting very confused and roughly half of the people turned back because they couldn't figure out where to go. Oh, the hash.

It was the GM's last day so the down downs and bash afterwards were going to be especially raucous, but I ducked out early because I amazingly found 2 other hashers that live in Linkou. We hopped in a cab for about 45 minutes and how much would you guess that cost? Less than $30 US for a cab ride that long. Pretty cheap huh? And that cost was split 4 ways. Anyway, I think that pretty much sums up the day pretty well. Haring was something I'd wanted to do since I joined the hash so I'm SO glad I got the opportunity finally!