The first official day of our trip to Guangzhou began with breakfast. I learned, more than ever before, how difficult it is to get by without knowing the language. I know a few key words (hello, how much, thank you, etc.) but not enough to order food. I just ended up having to point to what I wanted and luckily I had the help of two professors from Bridgewater State. The students from Taiwan are lucky, because they speak Mandarin, which is the dialect that is spoken here. Most things are also written in Kanji, unlike Beijing and Hong Kong where most things were also written in English. For breakfast I had an assortment of bread items. One piece of bread was like a Danish with lemon on top. The second was circular, covered with coconut,
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