Today I submitted my last final, a paper on the similarities and differences between Greater-Chinese and American commercial film for Chinese Contemporaneity Cinema, so felt like I should discuss what my plans are for Jared in China. I will staying until June 1, a bit after the formal end of my program.
As with all things, I always planned the Jared in China blog to be a temporary; I expected to end Jared in China when Jared was no longer in China. To be honest, I actually expected my only reader to be my Mom and to kill Jared in China with little fanfare. To my surprise I usually get between 100-200 hits a week here, sometimes even more, so I now feel like I should explain my plans for Jared in China. I am still planning on ending the blog. I just don't think I will have as much to say nor will you have as much interest in reading about my summer studying for the LSAT and GRE tests in New Jersey. The good thing about writing a blog while abroad is almost everything I do is somewhat inherently interesting. It doesn't take much to make a trip to the fresh, aka live, fish section of a Chinese grocery store a fun read, but, once I return, my trip to an American grocery store is a weekly chore for most of my readers (although I don't know for certain since I only have the free web hosting subscription and that package doesn't include my readers location). I am not planning on ending Jared in China the minute I return to the United States. I am planning on doing travel updates at major stops on my trip home, likely just Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and home home. Since I took so many photos during my time in Shanghai, I would like to do a top photos post or two. I am definitely going to do some kind of China retrospective once I return to the US. I am not sure how long this retrospective will be, I might have to break it up somehow but I will only know that once I start writing it. Since I am going to be summarizing 9 months of my life I am expecting it to be long. I will need some time to decompress before writing it though. I would also like to do a blog statistics post of some kind. Finally, I am planning on turning some of my experiences in China into more formalized projects. I will hopefully be able to use my time in China as inspiration at least for a Juniata College Liberal Arts Symposium project next school year. I have a few other ideas for things I would like to base off my time in abroad but those are so rough I don't wan't to go into them. I expect that something about my time in China and Asia will come to benefit me later on in a way I can't foresee now. While I don't plan on becoming Professor Miller of East China Normal University you never really know when things pop up again. I would also like to note that I do plan on keeping a normal posting schedule until I leave China on June 1. I would like to thank my readers for the continued support of my blog and myself throughout my year abroad. Actually having readers who might get annoyed at me if I didn't write defiantly motivated me to write more regularly than I normally do. I would like to apologize for the occasional periods where I was not as diligent with posting as I should have been. I would also like to apologize for some of the misspellings. While the end of Jared in China might be a bit sad, I plan to keep doing interesting things for quite some time. Who knows, perhaps I will come back to blogging, perhaps I will think of a better name for my next blog than Jared in China.
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"Jared Miller, a Junior at Juniata College, spending a year abroad in China, Read More" - March 2017 Parents eNewsletter If you get the Juniata College Parents eNewsletter you might have noticed that my blog and myself made the Student Spotlight section. For those of you who didn't get it, this months theme seems to be study abroad and international education. So to anyone new welcome to Jared in China and to anyone old thanks for sticking around.
I am having some problems with the background photo for my header. I don't know why but I am trying to fix it. If you see a random image instead of a lovely view of Pudong, I am sorry and I am trying to correct the issue.
Update: Ok I fixed the issue by saving my header again on my phone. I have no idea why that worked but it did. I guess the problem is solved... enough... It just struck me that the order of my recent blog posts have been a beer & cookie post, a beer & tacos post, a bar post, a rice wine post, and a sex post. I am slightly glad I am going back to class, if only to pull my mind and my blog out of the gutter I made for myself. I promise I will post something vaguely academic or a pretty picture of Shanghai soon.
After some touring of China with my Mom that I didn't get to bloging about, I am back at East China Normal and am going to try to grt back to a normal bloging schedule. I have one week off before classes start so I should have plenty of time to remember to post.
It is time for Jared In China to go on a vacation I think I deserve. Thanks to my massive winter break and Asian budget airlines Jared in China will now become Jared in China in Other Places... I did not think that name through when I started this blog... The first leg of my extra adventure is Hanoi, Vietnam. I am now sitting in a coffee bar in Shanghai's Pudong Airport (PVG) waiting for Vietnam Airlines to let me check my bag, so it goes. Vietnam should be cool, I have heard good things about the food (a theme that is very common with my blog).
I started my study abroad study abroad from The Shanghai Maglev train. If you need to go to PVG this is an experance I might skip. It is not that maglev trains aren't rad, because they are, but because it is way to hard to get to the Shanghai Maglev to be a useful method of transportation for most. I spend about an hour trying to get my luggage through the subway system, and experance I also can't recommend, for about 7 minutes on the maglev train itself. I can confirm though, the train goes 301km/h and the ride is smooth. I don't believe there is too much of a cost or time savings between the subway to maglev and the taxis. If the Municipality built a longer line to connect the airports and some of the big hotel areas, I could recommend it, but until then it is a skip. Also, if you hear anyone tell you that China will take over the world because maglev, tell them for me that they are dead wrong. This morning I rememberd I did not make a blogbpost yesterday. I actually just forgot, I even had a picture I wanted to share. I would be prepaired for more short breaks over my break. I don't know how strong the internet will be everywhere I visit.
With a Trump presidency, against all odds and sense, becomming increasingly likley by the minute I have just been sitting here watching the election and trying to make a blog post based on my field trip to Thames Town, Shanghai. I fully blame Donald J. Trump for my inability to actually finish that blog post. I had a whole relivent election joke planned that tied the whole post together nicely and everthing but allas, it does not seem like I will be able to post that today. I am actually unable to get on my Juniata VPN at all so I can't write a long blog post or fully use my Facebook (I can sometimes use proxies to get a rather slimmed down version of Facebook). I will try to make the post tomorrow, hopefully my joke will still be as funny. For now, I am forced to make only short posts from my phone in the Physics Building.
From what I have been able to pick up things are getting kind if weird. The website for the Canadian Immigrarion Office has gone down faster then the stock market. My German friend says there is confusion in Berlin because the German government has no idea what to do about Trump. I sware I am not making this up, I just saw a Chinese military jet flying around. Hopefully I will get my post up soon, but until then good luck America, and my G-d have mercy on our souls. If I suddenly stop posting, I have been detained by the People's Republic as an enemy alien and you should all write to President-Elect Trump to tell him that my arrest was his fault. So at some point early today or late last night, for me anyway, I hit then surpassed 1,000 views. My Jared in China blog is now officially the most sucussful thing I have ever done on the internet. To be perfictly honest, I was kind of expecting the only people who will ever read my blog would be my Mom and Dad, but it seems other people are actually reading it. In terms of internet blogs I think I am doing very well, as from what I here most blogs have no readers other than the author.
So I guess thanks all for reading my blog! I plan to basically change nothing and continue doing what I have been doing for the past twoish weeks. 你好and welcome to my blog "Jared in China." Surprisingly it is about me, Jared, in China during my year abroad at East China Normal University in Shanghai. I promise to attempt to post regularly and to try to proof read most of what I post (I can't guarantee the accuracy of my Chinese... or my English for that matter). I don't have a serious plan about what I will post. I expect that I will post a lot of pictures and try to get some fun facts. I will also try to make everything I do post somewhat interesting, for me at least. |
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