Being hot, tired and miserable didn’t help my first impressions. It’s gotten a bit better. It’s still gray and big and industrial, but I saw a few of the parks yesterday and let the Chinese gardens work their curvy magic on me. I also went to the central square, briefly admired the Mao statue, and […]
23 May 3U 8704 Shenzhen 1600 – Chengdu 1800 26 May CA 4219 Chengdu 1850 – Xi’an 2000 28 May FM 9208 Xi’an 2255 – Shanghai (Pudong) 0105+1 31 May CA 0157 PVG 1705 – Tokyo (Narita) 2100 08 Jun CA 0930 NRT 1505 – PVG 1720 10 Jun CA 0930 PVG 1835 – Shenzhen […]
My first impressions of Chengdu are not great. My very first: I couldn’t see anything. Grey-out. It’s been raining a bit. Big, industrial. Cheap taxis. Bigger hostel/guesthouse operation than I’d like to stay in, too. Guess I’ll see the pandas and some temples and move on to other things.
In a personal first for me, today I was informed that I am banned from a library—the Lingnan University one. My crime? I foolishly completed some of the clearance paperwork for exchange students, including a certification that I have neither loans nor fines outstanding from the Lingnan library. According to the wisdom of Lingnan bureaucracy, […]
People are disappearing right and left. It’s no fun. I’m still sad. People I’ve known since August are disappearing, some forever—and the number of spring-semester exchangers I really hung out with, small to begin with, will soon be at the point where I can count it with my nose. In other Hong Kong news, at […]
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I might have graduated recently, but I can’t find anyone to confirm it. I hope I graduated. I’m done with exams now, too, and I should be done with undergraduate education entirely. I’m still not sure what I’m going to do between now and the 12th. There are some nice domestic airfares in China, and […]
I was even worse about uploading this installment. Not even a pile of essays imminently due got me to write this post. Studying for my first (inconsequential) final, however, has done the trick. Unfortunately, I can’t remember this part very well. The JSA was great. Look at the photos. I was on the North Korean […]
Sorry, I’ve been quite slack in my blogging for this trip. I’ll try to remember a bit here. The flight Friday was a little late but nothing to complain about too much. THAI’s food was a pleasant surprise: the dinner wasn’t amazing, but the warm roll and metal cutlery were. The scalding hot towel was […]
This weekend was unusual, as this entry’s title says. Don’t worry; next weekend, I should be in Seoul. Last Wednesday was an honorary member of le week-end (the word that us cultured multilingual types like to use) due to its impossibly clear weather. I decided to go to Cheung Chau—not the first time I’d made […]
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I shouldn’t have checked the news before going to bed last night. I also shouldn’t have checked it this morning. How miserable.
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