Hello to anyone still reading this blog!
Even with my often bad spelling, I was very happy with how this blog turned out overall. Many people told me how sad they were when Jared was no longer in China and I ended the blog. So, now that I have graduated law school (and need to generate business), I have decided to get back into the blogging game with the soft launch of my new blog: Miller on Things. Unlike Jared in China, which I consider a travel/lifestyle blog, Miller on Things will be a legal blog with some more fun elements. If you like what you read here, and want to see how much better someone's editing can get in four years (as crazy of the thought I studied abroad four years ago at this point is to me) feel free to it check out at milleronthings.weebly.com/. Don't worry, if I can stick to it I will eventually get a proper domain name.
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No, this isn't me back in China (still in the US), but the blog was down for some reason. I got it back up after a quick message to Weebly. All should be well now.
I was working on a revival/retrospective on Jared in China on my personal website called Jared in China: Revival. If you want to see what that looked liked feel free to check it out. I might keep working on it but progress will be slower now that we are back online here. I had less really impressive photos in my second semester. I guess I did most of the cool touristy stuff so I didn't have as much good materiel. I remember I had way more food and drink photos.
While "random photos from around Asia" might not be the greatest blog title this is in essence what these are. I quite like the photo of the Beijing Bird's Nest Stadium and the tourist with the drone from Laos. Overall I think I am most happy with this set of photos. I guess with travel I saw new places so consequently the photos of those places are new. In Shanghai I often did just my daily life or saw the same things several times.
These are just some of my favorite photos arranged in no particular order. Many of my photos in the first semester were from some of Shanghai's more touristy and more famous areas, like Pudong or Thames Town. That doesn't bother me too much, sometimes places are famous for a reason. Still, I do have some great photos from the less famous places, like the subway stop photo. To be honest though, I think the picture of East China Normal's Mao statue overlooking the Global Harbor Mall is the best photo I took all year.
As with all things my adventures in China and Asia are comming to a close. I just found my gate at Shanghai Pudong International Airport for my flight back to Newark, NJ where this whole thing started back in September of last year. Hopefully I will have enough reading meterial for the 14-16 hour flight, if not there is always TV.
Just got off my 16 hour flight from Shanghai and am now safely back in New Jerset, USA.
After I turned in my final final paper for the year one of my friends and I decided to take a trip to People's Park, the Bund, and Pudong to take some more photos before we leave. To be honest, while it is one of if not the most touristy district in Shanghai I actually quite like the Bund area. There is just something inherently interesting about the mixing of Old Shanghai and New Shanghai in the Bund area. Also, the Shanghai Municipal Government has markers on most of the historic buildings on the Bund telling you, in English and in Chinese, what the building was and why that thing was important. The Royal Canadian Navy apparently agrees with me since they had a very new looking ship docked at the People's Liberation Army Navy base located by the Bund. We then went over to the Pudong side of the river to take some more photos and get some dinner. We went to a Japanese place that, while empty, wasn't bad. They did seat us by the window since I guess they thought that an obvious foreigner (like myself) would drum up customers. We finally took some last pictures of Pudong at night before returning to campus.
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AuthorI am a junior at Juniata College spending a year studying abroad at East China Normal University. Please feel free to join my on my journey to China and beyond. Archives
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