What I will miss (in pictures)

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Here is just a selection of what china has given me, which i will most surely miss.

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Photos

The "peace" sign
The answer to any great pose dilemma.

the sense of adventure
3 hours before this picture was taken, we didn't know if we would be going anywhere...and here we are on our way to bali. A week earlier, we didn't know if we would have our visas. There was so much we didn't know, but we knew it would be good....and was it ever.

nobody says KARAOKE better than the chinese
I never had a better voice then in my karaoke days in china.

Chinese food
It's seems like their is no diversity, because every restaurant is chinese, but the food is sooo good.

"AMANDA!"
I will miss the sheer excitement so many of the kids get from just seeing me. Somehow, I don't think that will translate back home.

I just like this picture
I really like 5th grade, and these are some of my fifth graders...

Traveling
traveling is like that 11am college class that you learned the most in and the professor waived the final exam...

The occasional sunset...over that beautiful Shenzhen skyline

The Rockstar treatment
The closed of the highway to shuttle us foreigners to Guangzhou...oh how I wish they would do that for me on the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Maybe no one will want me in the picture
Here...I can be in anyone's picture.

Who wouldn't miss these.
fifth grade...my favorite

I will miss all "show" that china always seems to put on
Whatever celebration it is, china will do it up big. I can't wait to see the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics...There will be more lights, more colors and more acts than any before.

Comments

[Cindy A]

It sounds like you are already gone. As excited as I am to have you back, it made me sad to think it is almost all over.