We leave for China in less than 24 hours, and we have already encountered our first (and we hope only) glitch.
Every trip generally presents us with the chance to use one of our UHON mottos, which is "flexibility." Well, last night near midnight, as Tony and I traveled home from South Carolina, I received a series of emails informing me that because of illness, Dr. Guo will not be accompanying us on our trip. Dr. Guo was the only member of our travel party who speaks Chinese, so now we will be traveling to China as a group with no one in the group who speaks Chinese except for a freshman who took Chinese in high school and a little in her first year of college. This promises to be a true adventure!
Nevertheless, we are confident the folks at Nanjing University will make sure that we have English-speaking tour guides to look out for us and to keep us out of trouble.
We are are learning basic phrases that should help us with basic needs, and I am certain we will have some great stories. Please feel free to share the blog with other friends and family. In the meantime, remember that English-speaking blogs are blocked in China, so a friend of ours in Dalton, Georgia will be making our posts for us after we email him our activities. Ideally, he can also email us any questions you have.
Every trip generally presents us with the chance to use one of our UHON mottos, which is "flexibility." Well, last night near midnight, as Tony and I traveled home from South Carolina, I received a series of emails informing me that because of illness, Dr. Guo will not be accompanying us on our trip. Dr. Guo was the only member of our travel party who speaks Chinese, so now we will be traveling to China as a group with no one in the group who speaks Chinese except for a freshman who took Chinese in high school and a little in her first year of college. This promises to be a true adventure!
Nevertheless, we are confident the folks at Nanjing University will make sure that we have English-speaking tour guides to look out for us and to keep us out of trouble.
We are are learning basic phrases that should help us with basic needs, and I am certain we will have some great stories. Please feel free to share the blog with other friends and family. In the meantime, remember that English-speaking blogs are blocked in China, so a friend of ours in Dalton, Georgia will be making our posts for us after we email him our activities. Ideally, he can also email us any questions you have.
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