6 Weeks In
Missed Opportunity
Well, I probably missed my chance there. I mean, I promised myself I would chronicle my every adventure in the great land of China – not just for the benefit of my friends and family who might harbour a vague interest in knowing what I had been up to, but for prosperity. The idea that in the next few years I may be able to look back and say, “Oh, I remember when I did that”. I am well aware of the fact that my memory does not server me to the best of it’s ability and often I forget the things I have been doing and the places I have seen from one day to the next. The last 6 weeks have been hectic to say the least and so many new memories are creeping in to replace those that I thought I had already committed to the memory vault, that now I have managed to get my act together and try to make a go of this whole on-line, publicly scrutinised diary thing.
With a roster of over 400 students to my name, a whole host of authority figures at the university and in local government to meet and greet as well as all the new friends I have been making here, it’s a wonder I have anything left to document except bewilderment. In the next few days I will chronicle my trip to Bei’jing of last weekend (May Day holiday) and my activities in the week past. Unfortunately, much of the things that shocked and amazed us since we first arrived seemed to have past but I feel I shall still be able to find something that interests the readers of these posts.
What the Great Unwashed are saying