My amazing year in China

Making memories: The author, second from left, during a tour of the Great wall
Making memories: The author, second from left, during a tour of the Great wall

Arriving in the city of Beijing, China on that cold evening of February 22, 2017 gave me the chills. So many thoughts ran through my mind and I wondered what I got myself into.

Coming from a hot country as ours, you can understand why I had to question my decision. The city was extremely cold that night that I still remember it so vividly. Let's just say that was a feeling we all have or experience, especially when we step into an unknown territory where we are not sure what to expect, more so when your whole life you have carried misconceptions about such a place.

China moves with a speed of light. That is the culture. Chinese people are time conscious and normally they don’t walk around as if they just received bad news. They are so fast that one has not choice but to adapt to their ways.

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