Friday, February 22, 2013
Well it is the weekend again. I landed two hours and twenty minutes before my luggage did so that was pretty terrible. They didnt confiscated any of my juggling things although they did take the letter I left in the bag explaining what all of the questionable things were. Many thanks to Thom for pointing me in the right direction on how to travel with props. I ended up getting to my hotel at 2am. Over the past week I have been able to visit Yuyuan Garden, Qibao, Sheshan Mountain, and the Shanghai Financial Building. I have registered at the school but no one knows where I will be living yet... The course list that I got from them today is different than the one I got last semester so it will be interesting to see how I deal with all of this. Now all I need is a place to wash my clothes.... It has been an overall decent week and my Chinese is starting to get a little better.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Pre-Departure freaking out
First off I want to thank Yikun for all of the help he has been giving me. Now I have checked my documents at least seven different times. I am just now about to wash all of my clothes and start packing up. This will be my last day in Orlando. I am almost done getting everything else besides the clothes prepared. Hopefully all of my juggling props are clean enough to fly without being confiscated. I have set up a VPN so that I can use the internet freely. For future reference there are some free options to navigate the Great Fire Wall of China. One free program you can download is Ultrasurf and a website you can go to is "vtunnel.com". However, I do not trust those two things with passwords. You never know. Tomorrow I will print out my flight confirmation and hopefully relax until it is time to leave. I am very excited to be spending six months in Shanghai, but I am definitely going to miss almost everything here.
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