Postcards from Asia

A weblog with updates of my Asian travels and studies. I invite East West Center fellows, GPC colleagues, and other visitors to post on topics of interest in Asian studies.

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Monday, June 04, 2007



GPC in Nanjing: Week 2: Will staying in China for more than a week make you crazy? The answer must be, "Yes!" After a week of non-stop, whirlwind touring in Beijing, all of us experienced a little bit of belated culture stress after getting settled into Nanjing and decompressing a little. All of the telltale signs were there. You know what I mean--the late night runs to the McDonalds near our campus; eating a second or third chocolate sundae just because you can; paying your taxi driver too much to drive you to Nanjing's Pizza Hut, even though it's way on the other side of town. And there are those unwished for little surprises--like how what looks like an Egg McMuffin on the menu here has no Canadian bacon on it, but lots (and I mean lots!) of ketchup and mayo. In the photo to the left is Monique Artis, a first-year student of Chinese who is on this trip with her twin sister, Heather. Stephanie Wallace, another student on our trip, had fun fitting "Mo" into her red, hoody, custom-made-in-China straight-jacket . Mo wants you all to know that she did not want this photo published, and she is not, NOT, crazy! Really!

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