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Trip Start Jul 08, 2008
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Trip End Aug 15, 2008


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Monday, July 7, 2008

I said goodbye to my apartment on Sunday and goodbye to my family this morning and went... to work.  Aside from the huge backpack on the T with me, nothing made me feel like this morning was different from any other commute.  It wasn't until I left 30 Winter for the last time to walk to South Station for the bus to NYC that I finally realized this trip is real. 

Reality hit fast.  I can already log my first awkward Chinese language encounter of the trip - at the Citizens Bank on Summer St in Boston.  I drew a Chinese clerk when I went to handle money for travelling and ended up having to finish the transaction in Mandarin, trying to understand her heavy southern accent. 

Getting quacked at by a duck tour made me reflect a bit on this whole strange tourist thing I'm about to be part of.  I tripped over a few tour groups downtown and thought I should apologize to Mayor Mumbles for not following the pins on a 'staycation'.  Apologies too to Mayor Mike from Medford for only spending one night in New York.  I did have a great bus ride down here though.  The Fung Wah bus made NYC in record time without catching on fire, AND I ended up sitting next to a grad student from Changsha and got to chat in Mandarin the whole ride. 

I fly in 12 hours, trying to get myself on Beijing time already.  I'm wicked excited. 
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