A Summer of Great Experiences

I have left China and made it home. The jet lag is ridiculous. My summer in Guizhou was beyond amazing. It was my summer vacation, but going to GFC was more than just a vacation. The summer was an eye opening experience. Meeting loads of friends from all over the world, making friends with some amazing students, learning about culture through friends, and learning about culture through making mistakes. It was all wonderful. There was not a time that I was truly bored. Some days may have been less eventful, but there was always someone to talk to and hang out with. Not only was I able to lean about Chinese culture at GFC, but because of our incredible multicultural intern and volunteer program I learned about cultures from all over the world. My travels in China this summer was not a couple weeks of taking buses with a tour group to hotels and museums. My summer, thanks to GFC, was 10 weeks and 4 days of meeting and creating special bonds with people, being submerged in culture, and working my way through situations with a huge language barrier in between. To be honest, being in a tour group and going places with them is very fun, but the real fun is when your on your own in a country you've never been to, where people speak a language u barely know, in situations you never thought of being in. That was my summer thanks to GFC and all the amazing friends I have met there.

 Air China sweeps me away from Guiyang to Shanghai with the sun behind me.

 Keunhee posts up a sticky for me on my last night in GFC.

 This was the last class I taught at GFC. I will surely miss these Hotel Management students. Photo Credit: Random student walking past the class room at the right time.

 On my last night my friends and I went out to have my last bowl of Huishui hot pot. Photo Credit: Chaley Ayers

 Emma, Me , and Gabi and Huanguoshu waterfall. Emma, Gabi, and I became very good friends this summer.