Sunday, 07 June 2009

• going to guangxi, june 8-16

  dear avid readers of my de facto defunct xanga blogger,
  
  i will be leaving for baise, guangxi tomorrow morning on an 8 AM charter bus bound for the shenzhen airport. from there, the ETAs will board a plane bound for nanning, guangxi. at nanning, half of the group (9 of us) will board a train for baise. we will be staying near baise university until the morning of the 16th -- at which point, we will make our trek home to hong kong.
  
  regretfully, i am completely unenthused at the prospect of going to rural china, and even more so because i will be celebrating my only 25th birthday in said country. however, i am going to try and look on the brightside. at least i am not alone. i will be going through this teaching experience in china with a group of young, intelligent, and personable people. and i recognize the fact that i am still young, even if not at heart. when else will i get a chance to go to rural china again? never, at least not voluntarily. if there's one thing i have learned this year, hong kong and mainland china are truly two different places.
  
  on to brighter news! june 17 to 26, i will be going to taiwan to see bebe and winnie wu. that should brighten things up considerably. i also seem to have found a place to live. granted, the flat is quite a distance from the city, but the rent is cheap. the new york equivalent would be -- living in staten island, but commuting to work in midtown. the philly equivalent would be -- living in bucks county and having to take the train to work everyday in center city. expensive transportation costs, but bearable.
  
  that's it for now. i shall return to you within 9 days, and one year older.
  
  best regards,
  winnie

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