June 1.
The beds are so hard! I have a hard mattress at home to sleep on but the Chinese really sleep on hard beds! Kelley, our Shanghi tour guide, told me that the chinese have hard beds because they believe it is healthier for you. Amazing enough! I slept very comfortably.
Jessica Cunningham was my roommate. It was interesting to find out that Jessica had lived in Susanville, Calif. around 1989 for a couple of years. She is now married to John Pappus who held the Lassen County Office as the Assistant Treasurer. It's a small world after all....
June 4.
After a good restful sleep at the Shanghi Hotel. I went down to breakfast and the food was cold, coffee was cold and the breakfast sandwiches were cold, but the eggs were hot. Dining customs in China were definitly different than in the US.
June 5
After a comfortable all night train ride - I slept real good in the cramped 4 bed quarters. Our roommates were: GG, Grace, Jessica and myself. We were all exhausted and slept all night, we did not talk much just slept. The train took us to Wuhan - and listening to the cadence of the train on the tracks, clip-clopping along, put me right to sleep. When we arrived at the train station in Wuhan was a nightmare. The train station is under construction. We had stairs to carry our luggage up and down. Matt, saw my stuggling plight and helped me carry some pieces. It was a long walk to to the tour bus. That walk was when it hit me that China is populated with millions and millions of people. Dodging people left and right sideways and backwards was a big realization for me! (So many people)
Blue skies and sparkling stars was the first beautiful site I saw from the airplane window as we were climbing to 37,000 feet in the sky to bring all of us ChinaTrekers home on June 19, 2007. From June 1st our experiences in China will be remembered for the rest of our lives. As for myself, my first travel abroad leaves me in a state of finding out things about myself that I had not realized before and to make that discovery at this latter time in my life. I know now I will live the rest of my life as a fuller, and richer person.
June 1. The beds are so hard! I have a hard mattress at home to sleep on but the Chinese really sleep on hard beds! Kelley, our Shanghi tour guide, told me that the chinese have hard beds because they believe it is healthier for you. Amazing enough! I slept very comfortably. Jessica Cunningham was my roommate. It was interesting to find out that Jessica had lived in Susanville, Calif. around 1989 for a couple of years. She is now married to John Pappus who held the Lassen County Office as the Assistant Treasurer. It's a small world after all.... June 4. After a good restful sleep at the Shanghi Hotel. I went down to breakfast and the food was cold, coffee was cold and the breakfast sandwiches were cold, but the eggs were hot. Dining customs in China were definitly different than in the US. June 5 After a comfortable all night train ride - I slept real good in the cramped 4 bed quarters. Our roommates were: GG, Grace, Jessica and myself. We were all exhausted and slept all night, we did not talk much just slept. The train took us to Wuhan - and listening to the cadence of the train on the tracks, clip-clopping along, put me right to sleep. When we arrived at the train station in Wuhan was a nightmare. The train station is under construction. We had stairs to carry our luggage up and down. Matt, saw my stuggling plight and helped me carry some pieces. It was a long walk to to the tour bus. That walk was when it hit me that China is populated with millions and millions of people. Dodging people left and right sideways and backwards was a big realization for me! (So many people) Blue skies and sparkling stars was the first beautiful site I saw from the airplane window as we were climbing to 37,000 feet in the sky to bring all of us ChinaTrekers home on June 19, 2007. From June 1st our experiences in China will be remembered for the rest of our lives. As for myself, my first travel abroad leaves me in a state of finding out things about myself that I had not realized before and to make that discovery at this latter time in my life. I know now I will live the rest of my life as a fuller, and richer person.