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| The entry gate to the campus. Notice the buses that carry us to the Minhang campus. |
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| This will be home for thirteen weeks. |
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| This will be my home again at the end of thirteen weeks |
Here is the room I stayed in for the first week. The hotel needed to work on the room, and asked
me to move for a couple nights.
They moved me to a smaller room in not very good shape (Susan's old room, I was told, but this year it was full of old cigarette smoke). When it was time to move back, I was told I’d have to go to another room. So, I’m close to the first room, but I’m in a
room that’s a bit smaller. It's clean and functional; it's big enough to be
comfortable for a couple months, but small enough that I can hit a wall if I need to. It looks just like this one, with a little balcony.
What will follow here, I know not, except that it will be the naive impressions of someone seeing the world for the first time. So if you laugh, I won't mind. I'm not planning to do a lot of touring, but people keep saying I should. If you're one who has been here and done all of this, perhaps you'll remember the little things you've forgotten. I'll probably forget to record the BIG things. I hope I enjoy this journey and if you follow
along, I hope you do too.
Naive impressions? Perhaps that's the best way to see the world, Lonny -- so many of us go around seeing everything through a camera lens and get home wondering what and who those pictures are of. Better to just look, be intentionally naive, tell us what you see! How exciting, just that you are there at all!
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