BuckeyeRyn
Calling all friends & people I met on the way down
Isn't "ohio" or something similar how you say "hello" in China?
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Already found two Buckeye alumni...enough said. Brutus, I feel for you and I think you would appreciate the local talent.
Tomorrow, dinner in Hong Kong en route to Cape Town!
Stay well, guys!
Tomorrow, dinner in Hong Kong en route to Cape Town!
Stay well, guys!
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BrutusMaximus
I Heart Boobs
Or a sticky situation.......
It probably is, there are about 4 billion ways to say hello in China and Japan.
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I am back and overwhelmed with administrative stuff.
BB73, the Bund was really beautiful but I didn't make it there to see the morning tai chi.
Brutus, I waited at the bloody airport until the last minute, yelling OH until I had no strength left. Unfortunately, I had to tell the two women with waist length dark hair that the man of their dreams was not to be found and I left them behind. Maybe if you go to Shanghai airport and yell IO, you may have some luck?
My reaction to China was quite different than I expected. Development is far behind South Africa in many respects. Yet, the same in other respects. The business school was world class. They are really, really interested in getting ahead. Every bus and train you see, people are reading management, self-improvement, and other books. Always in English. I was amazed at the mathematical skills of my student aid, who was a sophomore at Shanghai Jaio Tong University.
People treated me with great courtesy. You see American flags flying at all the major hotels and at many companies. I went off the beaten track and found people that thought I was quite a curiosity. A couple of small children rubbed my skin and they thought my rounded eyes were funny. I did not feel threatened anywhere that I went.
They are a country undergoing rapid, rapid change. It is amazing how the shopping malls are going in and the number of 40-60 story towers. Very, very impressive.
A few of us were treated to dinner in Chairman Mao's guest house in Shanghai. I was amazed at how deluxe it had been in the 1970s, filled with American stuff (including the American Standard urinals). I could not help but think as I walked through some of the older neighborhoods and saw people my age, that they had lived through the cultural revolution and all of the upheaval.
I left with a greater appreciation for the Chinese and with a renewed impression that American students must pick up the pace because these guys are hungry and they are going for it.
BB73, the Bund was really beautiful but I didn't make it there to see the morning tai chi.
Brutus, I waited at the bloody airport until the last minute, yelling OH until I had no strength left. Unfortunately, I had to tell the two women with waist length dark hair that the man of their dreams was not to be found and I left them behind. Maybe if you go to Shanghai airport and yell IO, you may have some luck?
My reaction to China was quite different than I expected. Development is far behind South Africa in many respects. Yet, the same in other respects. The business school was world class. They are really, really interested in getting ahead. Every bus and train you see, people are reading management, self-improvement, and other books. Always in English. I was amazed at the mathematical skills of my student aid, who was a sophomore at Shanghai Jaio Tong University.
People treated me with great courtesy. You see American flags flying at all the major hotels and at many companies. I went off the beaten track and found people that thought I was quite a curiosity. A couple of small children rubbed my skin and they thought my rounded eyes were funny. I did not feel threatened anywhere that I went.
They are a country undergoing rapid, rapid change. It is amazing how the shopping malls are going in and the number of 40-60 story towers. Very, very impressive.
A few of us were treated to dinner in Chairman Mao's guest house in Shanghai. I was amazed at how deluxe it had been in the 1970s, filled with American stuff (including the American Standard urinals). I could not help but think as I walked through some of the older neighborhoods and saw people my age, that they had lived through the cultural revolution and all of the upheaval.
I left with a greater appreciation for the Chinese and with a renewed impression that American students must pick up the pace because these guys are hungry and they are going for it.
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