Well, my trip here in China draws to an end today. My departure is sort of bittersweet because I don't feel like I had enough time here. Regardless I squeezed as much as humanly possible into 2 weeks. I made a bunch of new friends. they are my co-workers but I regard them as my friends after my experiences with them here. China is an amazing place and I hope to return soon and for longer next time.
To give a one sentence summary of what I did here: Shopped on cultural street, ate scorpions (!), played 4-on-4 basketball in the parking lot of a temple in the mountains, rode a zip line over the ocean in the fog (!!), saw a live filippino cover band at a hole in the wall bar in Tianjin, taught English to a very friendly (and cute) shopkeeper at the silk market, pulled an all-nighter in a train overnight from Qing-Dao to Tianjin talking with a person I had met the day before, rode a public bus to the Summer Palace, climbed the Great Wall, talked with students in Tiannemen square, took a self guided tour of the Forbidden City, cooked my own food at a hot-pot restaurant and Korean BBQ restarant, played hours of Uno on the "hard seat" section of a local train, watched a world cup soccer match at 11PM in a co-workers room at a really crappy hotel room, and laughed along with my co-workers until my stomach hurt.
Thank you China!
ps. I'll post pics when I get back.
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