The last week has been a blur! I left JFK at 8am on Thursday, August 21, and arrived in San Francisco to discover that a typhoon (a TYPHOON!) had closed the Hong Kong airport. I magically found about 15 people from my program who were also stranded, and we got to know each other and adventured throughout the city for the night. Thanks to Harris, I was able to find all the tourist destinations we needed (including the In and Out Burger!) Everyone was really cool and we ended up having a blast despite the inconvenience/expense of the delay. We left for Hong Kong on Friday at 9 am and arrived on Saturday, August 23, around 3 pm. Guangdong (and actually all of China, despite its size) is 12 hours ahead of the east coast, so
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