wandering through the garden of ideals
And so it ends...
CHINA | Friday, 4 July 2008 | Views [75]
This is the last time I’ll be writing from Beijing. I would like to sum it up concisely and neatly, but that’s pretty much impossible. Instead, I’m just going to list the things I’ll miss and the things I won’t. Hopefully, this will be entertaining instead of depressing.
Things I’ll miss: | Things I won’t miss: |
- The people I’ve met here (especially Mario, Case, Ilan, and all my couch surfers)
- My students
- Learning something new in a foreign language everyday
- PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
- Living in a huge city
- DVDs
- Chinese food (I think this is a given)
- Being a millionaire (while only working 15 hours a week)
- Hosting couch surfers
- Being able to travel for pennies
| - Not seeing my family or friends back home
- Teaching
- The language barrier
- Packed public transportation
- Seeing people pick their noses in public/having a reason to pick my own nose in public (i.e. the pollution)
- Censorship
- Shops only having clothes in children’s sizes
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I guess the good outweigh the bad.
But I’m excited to go home.
Even if I’m taking the long way around.
Happy 4th of July.
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