February 2008
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First Impression of Dalian
So I just arrived in Dalian this afternoon, and I miss Shanghai already.
Besides the fact that I have friends and family, and it’s uber metropolitan; Dalian pales in comparison. I feel like Shanghai is actually a country on its own, and Dalian is being in actual China. I’m guessing it’s comparable to living in New York City and then suddenly moving to like Lancaster. Still a...
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Xi'an
Yeah I’ve been seriously slacking on the blogging front.
This is partly because so much happened that I didn’t feel like writing about it every day, but at the same time, every day was kind of the same in Sichuan. The day would usually start around noon, we’d head up to the Second Uncle’s home, maybe tour somewhere in the afternoon, and then every night we would go out to...
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New Year's Eve
I’m tired so I’ll make this quick….
Today was New Year’s Eve so we went to my cousin’s grandfather’s grave (on her mother’s side, not related to me) and set off fireworks and burned paper money and offered food, etc- the reason why, I didn’t quite catch, but I figure it was because it’s the last day of the calendar year….? Then we...
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Sichuan
So after two days of driving (about 12 hours both days) we’re finally in some city in Sichuan (I forget the name) and I am so. Miserable. I would type out why, but my hands are too numb to continue. Basically I hate every aspect of this trip and feel very much trapped and alone; I would have been sooo much better off staying in a hostel by myself, chilling with expats and visiting more of MY...
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Nightlife
I went out last night with an Etown alum who lives in Shanghai; it went down exactly as I imagined being an expat in Shanghai on a Saturday night would. For dinner, he and his wife took me to this pretty posh looking sushi place where we had to take off our shoes to sit down; they also invited along a couple other friends they knew. The sushi was great, the sake was sweet, and I liked listening to...
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Oh China.
So I’ve learned that this horrible weather I’ve been speaking of is not just me exaggerating; it’s being called the “Chinese Katrina”- the English paper Shanghai Daily (shanghaidaily.com) has pictures of thousands of people on the platform on the Guangzhou station; as trains and planes are being delayed and cancelled. The Prime Minister even flew from Beijing to...
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My Apo
Tonight I am going to have a farewell dinner for my Apo; she came to work for us when I moved to Shanghai when I was two or three; 17 years later she’s going back to her home village of Zhejiang, near Ningbo in Zhejiang Province. She stayed on after I went back to the States to take care of the household for my grandmother; she’s become very close to the family and is the best cook I...
