News From The Other Side of the World

Mandy Hampton: I was thinking that it would be a good idea, as a symbol to signal how serious we are about our relationship with China, if we asked them for another bear.
Toby Ziegler: I think it would be a good idea as a symbol to signal that China is serious about their relationship with us if they stop running over their citizens with tanks.

--The West Wing, "Six Meetings Before Lunch" (4/5/00)

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So my neighbor Simone, whom I usually refer to as "S", is going to China in a couple of weeks to attend law school over there and find out what they know about it. She's been planning this trip since around the time we moved in next to her (as soon as she saw us get out of the moving van, she called her travel agent, I think), and the day of departure is imminent, now. 

She'll do a few weeks of prep work, solidifying her Chinese skills, I guess to get ahold of the local dialect. Then she'll be attending law classes at Shangdong University. 

But the cool part of all this is that Simone has decided to chronicle her year abroad in a blog. So take a minute to bookmark this site: Adventures Abroad and then go over there and wish her godspeed. We hear that her going-away party will be an entire day of bacchanalia, so try to get invited. 

Comments

[yellojkt]

That sounds very cool. I will definitely check it out.