[This is my Trail] Coming to America!
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Rachelle
Jul 10, 2009, 6:21:49 AM7/10/09
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Well, even the proxy server has been verrrrrrrry slow lately. Hence my lack of updates. Time has flown by and I will leave on Sunday evening for a 36 hour train ride across China (from Kunming to Beijing). Then, after about 7 hours in Beijing where hopefully I can find a place to take a shower, I will fly out on Air Canada from Beijing to Toronto and Toronto to DC. Loooong trip all together. It's been a busy couple of weeks not working and hanging out with friends and now I'm trying to stuff as much as possible in my suitcases (as I keep receiving more gifts and buying more things I don't have room for!). Fun times. I have made nearly $300 selling my stuff, so that's nice. All I have left to do is eat dog (planned for Saturday night dinner) and then I'll be officially finished with life in China. Haha. Good riddance facebook-blocking China!
On the other hand, though, China is a great place. I will certainly miss the food and the friends. One of my coworkers took me to her house to learn how to cook Chinese food last weekend, so maybe I'll try to buy a wok and hone my skills when I return. Also, here's another story to illustrate the kindness of Chinese people. Today I went to the tea market to buy a certain kind of pu-erh tea that I really like. As is typical in China, we did not just go in and buy the tea, even though I knew what it tasted like and had tasted it before. We still sat around chatting and drinking the tea. Then they gave me a really cool kind of cup to make the tea in that I was already planning on buying myself. They just gave it to me for no reason. I had not bought the tea yet and they ddin't even know how much I would buy. They just wanted to give it to me so it would be easy and convenient for me to make and drink tea in the US. How nice!
Of course, although I will miss China, there are many things I'm looking forward to in the US. As part of my reintegration into American culture, I decided that I would look at the billboard top 10 and download (legally!) some of these new popular songs so I wouldn't feel totally out of it upon my return. Well, instead of enjoying some new music, I'm repeatedly listening to Pokerface and Boom Boom Pow trying to figure out which of the two is the most stupid. They are both quite annoying. And Lady Gaga wears no pants. What on earth is up with that? So I leave you with that thought, America. Can anyone explain Lady Gaga?
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Posted By Rachelle to This is my Trail at 7/10/2009 05:55:00 AM
On the other hand, though, China is a great place. I will certainly miss the food and the friends. One of my coworkers took me to her house to learn how to cook Chinese food last weekend, so maybe I'll try to buy a wok and hone my skills when I return. Also, here's another story to illustrate the kindness of Chinese people. Today I went to the tea market to buy a certain kind of pu-erh tea that I really like. As is typical in China, we did not just go in and buy the tea, even though I knew what it tasted like and had tasted it before. We still sat around chatting and drinking the tea. Then they gave me a really cool kind of cup to make the tea in that I was already planning on buying myself. They just gave it to me for no reason. I had not bought the tea yet and they ddin't even know how much I would buy. They just wanted to give it to me so it would be easy and convenient for me to make and drink tea in the US. How nice!
Of course, although I will miss China, there are many things I'm looking forward to in the US. As part of my reintegration into American culture, I decided that I would look at the billboard top 10 and download (legally!) some of these new popular songs so I wouldn't feel totally out of it upon my return. Well, instead of enjoying some new music, I'm repeatedly listening to Pokerface and Boom Boom Pow trying to figure out which of the two is the most stupid. They are both quite annoying. And Lady Gaga wears no pants. What on earth is up with that? So I leave you with that thought, America. Can anyone explain Lady Gaga?
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Posted By Rachelle to This is my Trail at 7/10/2009 05:55:00 AM
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