Well, I have successfully downloaded a free VPN that has seeped through the proverbial cracks of the great firewall of China. At long last I am now pleased to present free gratis the chronicles of my sojourn in the Far East for your reading enjoyment.
Because I've been here for almost six weeks I will not attempt to catch you up in great detail. Suffice it to say I have found an apartment, a roommate, a piece-of-junk-passing-as-a-bicycle, several classes that I find interesting, and no shortage of mediocre restaurants that make me long for Taiwanese bistro. There is good food too of course, but it has been harder to find.
We had all of last week off for Chinese national holiday. Ian, Joel, Nicole, Josef and I spent the week in Sichuan and Chongqing. For the map-deprived or otherwise geographically challenged, Sichuan is in the Chinese mid-west, it is the western border of civilized China. Further west is Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Tibet.
I would recount our trip but Joel wrote a novella on the subject and so I'll just content myself with sharing that with you [here], and a few pictures.
Sweet! Hurrah for VPN's. Joel's account of your trip was great. Sounds fun.
ReplyDeleteYou've got to love those bicycle-mimicking pieces-of-junk. Much less likely to wander off on their own than the real thing.
ReplyDeleteSounds like an adventure! Look forward to hearing more.
ReplyDeleteFinally made time to read Joel's story. Wow! What an adventure! I love Joel's sense of humor. Has he thought about journalism as a career???
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