Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Change of Plans

My flight to Kunming in Yunnan was canceled twice because of 4 days of snow, so I will not be going. Instead, I'm going to Shanghai with a friend to kill time until I can get out to the Hong Kong area. I'll try to get a train, but, because of the Spring Festival rush, I may fall back on flying. The Shanghai airport will probably be back to running normally long before the Nanjing airport.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

It's been an even longer time








Snow outside my window 1/26









I admittedly fell off the wagon pretty hard with my blog. As you probably know, I made the decision to go back to China for another semester. I'm in the same program at Nanjing University, but will be taking higher level classes with the hope of becoming more fluent. Class doesn't start until February 18th because everyone is off for the week after the new year (on Feb. 6).

Last semester wrapped up with a very Chinese Thanksgiving, a couple more trips to Shanghai, Chinese language finals, a large research project (we surveyed 89 locals and wrote a 10 page paper), general merriment, and goodbyes. I went back to the U.S. for a month. After Christmas and New Years, I commenced my tour of the Midwest--Northwestern, Minneapolis, and Carleton College. Arrived in Nanjing yesterday after a marathon 36 some hours of travel.

I was looking forward to getting out of the Wisconsin weather, but it started snowing last night and doesn't seem like it's letting up.

Tomorrow or Monday, I plan on going to Yunnan for a week or two and then go to Hong Kong. My updates won't be elaborate while I'm traveling (not taking my laptop), but I plan to go to internet cafes to write what cities I'm in so my parents can keep track.