March 17, 2012
Packed up all belongings and met the group in the lobby of the YMCA- Salisbury Hotel at 5 am. Bus takes us to Hong Kong airport. Saw the first sunrise of the day.
9:45 flight on Delta 777 back to Detroit. 14.5 hour flight. See second sunrise of the day from the plane.
Arrive in Detroit 12:25 pm local time. Layover until 6 pm when catch flight back to Greensboro.
Arrive in Greensboro at 7:30 pm on same day, Saturday, March 17 after over 20 hours of travel.
Like the movie Groundhog Day.
But, we made it!
Stop by my parents' house in Salisbury to pick up George our dog.
Back to Shelby for long winter's nap.
What an adventure!
I have much respect for China and Chinese people after visiting. I think many Americans are afraid of the Chinese and believe they are stealing all our jobs and will take over the world or something. After meeting Chinese people you see that they have no such intentions. Chinese people are submissive and polite. They simply want a better life. They look at Americans and think we have it all. They want a house, a car, a cellphone and clothes with American brand names on them. I wish we could have seen the country and farmland to see how the majority of the Chinese really live. We saw only city life and the wealthiest Chinese who all had cell phones and Ipads and cars. They are a small, but growing percentage of the entire population. I would have also liked to have seen the mountains to the west. Supposedly beautiful mountains that rival our Rocky mountains. Don't know if I will ever make it back to China. There are so many other places I would like to visit first- Japan and Tibet, for instance. So glad we went though.
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