Thursday, July 19, 2007
Success!
hurrah -- i have managed to access my own blog and can now continue my travel log.
after numerous (ok 2) lengthy (i.e. 9 hours in total) flight delays i have arrived safe and sound in xian. the apartment we are being housed in are very nice and we even have cleaning ladies -- what luxury.
despite the extremely wet weather we've ventured out and seen some colourful back alleys and eaten some local fare. well, actually we wimped out on street food and are partaking of food court stuff thus far, but, hey, at least we aren't eating mickeyd's or kfc. due to the rain we're gonna hit up a museum today -- shaanxi history museum. perhaps i shall learn something :)
we haven't started volunteering yet but we've been for lunch and toured the clinic. ppl there are very friendly but shy at the same time -- i suppose it's the language thing. it turns out this is training season at the moment, so it's not clear what exactly we will be doing! there no patients in sight while we were there... hmm. i guess we will find out on monday!
posted by allimalia 10:09 PM
Monday, July 16, 2007
Travel Blog, China Here I Come
1:25 am and I am packed and the room is ... mostly clean. What is it about leaving for a trip and feeling that it's so important to leave behind a spotless room? (Okay, so my room isn't spotless but at least it's in better shape right now than it has been for the last two weeks).
Anyway -- travel, right, travel. Off to Beijing tomorrow. Will spend one evening there before I head off for 3 weeks of volunteering in Xian. I wonder if internet censorship is retroactive. Hmm. Anyway, I'll just leave it at this for now. Volunteering in the motherland -- let's hope my mother tongue skills are up to this. Perhaps I can learn to FIFE in Mandarin. (FIFE = the mantra of interviewing that ubc loves to teach -- feelings, ideas, function, expectations).
posted by allimalia 1:24 AM
