Tomorrow, Wednesday 19th, I will be going on the Spring ECNU field trip to Xiamen in Fujin Provence by Taiwan. Xiamen is a "small" Chinese city noted for its lovely gardens, seafood, and for being one of the first cities the Chinese Emperors opened to the Western "barbarians." It should be fun, I am looking forward to sitting on a patio drinking Tsingtao, eating a horrifically unkosher animal, shaking my fist at the Republic of China occupied the Provence of Taiwan. I have high hopes for Xiamen, it should be fun. Hopefully ECNU's staff will let me chill a bit because that is really what one should do in a shore city. It should be noted that a shore city and a beach city in China are very different things. The only real beaches in China are on Hainan while the whole east of the country has shore. For the most part, you can't swim in good chunks of the country. I will keep the blog updated.
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Sharon
4/18/2017 08:10:00 pm
bon voyage
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Dad
4/18/2017 11:27:23 pm
I generally go by the theory that if the water is too polluted to drink in a country, it is unlikely the beaches are any cleaner.
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