New changes are happening everywhere I look; within myself, my city and my friends. The semester ending has left parts of the city, especially those near the university empty and almost unused. Many of the thousands of students have returned home to their local city far from here. Like the students, many of the foreign teachers have taken this summer holiday as a chance to travel. I, myself just came back from a two week trip up north. It started with a very early morning train ride to Beijing with a friend of mine, Dusty. We didn’t stay long in Beijing, just seven hours, enough time for us to stretch our feet from the previous train ride of ten hours and to meet up with Dusty’s friend Sophia, a fellow Canadian. A quick walk around
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