Badly need a reintegration
I haven't blogged for a while (again!!!). Flic has no confidence in me when it comes down to blogging. Adam said that I am the most useless person to keep in touch with - because I don't stay in touch. Now the re-integration process needs to get in place.
Nick Smith has left China already. I was very shocked when I got the news. We spoke over skype once when I was in Seoul in early May. We were talking about traveling to Japan together once I go back to China. I have always imagined that as long as I go back to China, I'll be able to meet the group I always hang out together with. Other people move around the world as well - not just me. ;-( It feels like I have lost this friend forever.
I know Calvin is coming back to Shanghai for 3 months. And Shanghai is becoming more and more of a gathering place for famous @ers around the world. Rohit Sathe, Devrim, Carol (the previous InBev coordinator), Triin and the SIEMENS (ex) trainees gant, and some others just came to learn mandarin. (Btw, you should not study mandarin in Shanghai.)
I have designed a quite active routine once I go back to Shanghai. I need quite a bit of discipline to practice it though. I have been working withouth a fixed agenda for at least half of my term while I was doing country visits. Things I am very excited to do or to keep as a habit are: sitting meditation, Aikido, Taichi (with my parents, yah~), cooking and reading (all the books I bought but haven't read yet over this year).
I have never been strongly homesick so far (I have been living abroad for 13 months now). However, everytime I picture the moment I land in Shanghai, the moment I see my parents at the airport, I feel very emotional. Funny though life goes on very normally without such dramatic moment of meeting parents at the airport after more than 1 year of not seeing each other. However, I do think it is necessary. I cannot wait.
Nick Smith has left China already. I was very shocked when I got the news. We spoke over skype once when I was in Seoul in early May. We were talking about traveling to Japan together once I go back to China. I have always imagined that as long as I go back to China, I'll be able to meet the group I always hang out together with. Other people move around the world as well - not just me. ;-( It feels like I have lost this friend forever.
I know Calvin is coming back to Shanghai for 3 months. And Shanghai is becoming more and more of a gathering place for famous @ers around the world. Rohit Sathe, Devrim, Carol (the previous InBev coordinator), Triin and the SIEMENS (ex) trainees gant, and some others just came to learn mandarin. (Btw, you should not study mandarin in Shanghai.)
I have designed a quite active routine once I go back to Shanghai. I need quite a bit of discipline to practice it though. I have been working withouth a fixed agenda for at least half of my term while I was doing country visits. Things I am very excited to do or to keep as a habit are: sitting meditation, Aikido, Taichi (with my parents, yah~), cooking and reading (all the books I bought but haven't read yet over this year).
I have never been strongly homesick so far (I have been living abroad for 13 months now). However, everytime I picture the moment I land in Shanghai, the moment I see my parents at the airport, I feel very emotional. Funny though life goes on very normally without such dramatic moment of meeting parents at the airport after more than 1 year of not seeing each other. However, I do think it is necessary. I cannot wait.
posted by Jingwei @ 6:21 PM
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2 Comments:
Hey there, drop me an email and let us know when you are getting into town. Us lao wais will do what we can to help with re-integration.
Hey Chris,
Looks like I can't do Beijing in August either...so lets try for October ok?
Shift back to nomadlife, easier to keep track!!
xoxo
adi
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