Monday, August 23, 2010
大陆 - Mainland
Tomorrow we head off to Guilin, China. It's located in Southeast China hopefully not too close to all of the floods that are happening. It's about a 13 hour train ride away. It's a relatively small city in China only 1,340,000 people live there. It's well known for its scenery. After Guilin, we will head to Shanghai and spend 5 days there. We are going on a few corporate visits, so I will get to try out my new suit that I bought here. We are also getting two full days at the Expo from 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. When we return, I will have all of a day and a half to get ready for classes that start on the 6th. I'm a little worried about what my roommate will be like. I'm also incredibly worried that I may get placed in a 3 or 4 person room with constant Cantonese that will make me go crazy. Also here is an interesting article I found on China's economy:
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Oops the link didn't work...Here it is http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110393/seven-flaws-in-chinas-growth-model
ReplyDeleteGood one. I will check out the link a little later. I am working from home today as I have a lot to do and can work from here without interruption.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry too much about your roommate. It might turn out great - then fretting about it was a waste of time. If it does turn out not to be great, the worrying didn't help anyway.
The only constant Cantonese I can imagine is dish after dish after dish being brought to me in a restaurant. That sounds pretty good.
Have a great trip. I am looking forward to hearing about your next set of adventures! So glad you are keeping up with the blog; it's very interesting.