I'm getting on a bus in 2.5 hours to head to the airport for a 6:30 flight. We get in the same day we leave! Praise God for the International dateline.
This has been a pretty lackluster trip, compared to what I thought it would be. Expectations...they get you every time. As my mother would say mocking Oprah, who has a revelation with seemingly every experience, "It didn't change my life." This may be because I didn't eat any revelatory food. I really like to eat good food. Sometimes, I'm not particular, but in a country known for its food all over the world (in varying forms, of course), I was. It may have also been the complaining from the other group members...or not being able to speak the language, and I am a huge proponent of speaking the country's language. English as the universal language is self-centered, as well as unfair, especially to Esperanto. :)
However, I am very glad for this trip, because it was a privilege, and a struggle to make happen. I might take something away from it later. As I said about another experience I had recently, sometimes an experience has a "time-release" function, like that little ball of detergent--its significance doesn't all release at once, but gradually. So...
Say-chien to Beijing...
Say-chien to China...
Say-chien to blogging!
K.
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