My trip from the State to Shanghai took twenty four hours but i had made it. I had finally made it to my destination and was ready to introduce myself to the World. When i sept off the plane everything excited me: the sight (the vast emptiness of flat land surrounding Pudong International), the sounds (angry Chinese workers yelling at me), the smells (either rotting sewage or the saturation of sulfur in the atmosphere) and even the weather (hotter than anywhere else on Earth with 148% humidity but a little cooler than freakin' sun). Lets just say the honeymoon ended a lot sooner than expected. I attribute my extreme culture shock to the fact that I've never left the State and I've been sheltered more than the Bubble Boy. But this could also be a conspiracy
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