One Day Back

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I stopped in Shenzhen on my way back to Guangzhou. My old friend, Samuel, is returning to China for a graduate program up north. But he was in Shenzhen for one day (before heading out on a vacation before classes start), so I stopped by to see him and some other friends for a day before heading home.

Because the Universiade Games were underway, China had cleared out all the skies. I have never seen such blue skies in Shenzhen! Everything was clean, orderly, extra secure, and in many ways, nothing like the city I knew. The metro has four or five lines open now (as opposed to one and a half when I lived there), and the old lines are much longer. I was able to catch the metro at the ferry pier and Samuel later took another to the airport. It's amazing how much can happen in a year.

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Photos

Look at those skies!
SZ never had skies so blue when I lived there.

I ran into old friends
it's amazing who you meet on the subway platform. Like me, they're just in town visiting.

Samuel's back!
Back from NYC after two years and the reason I stopped by SZ this trip. It was good to see everyone again.

Comments

[Elyse]

Blue Skies
That is crazy how they cleaned the skies up. Now if they could just put those rules into play everyday across China. Shenzhen is a new city with all the subway lines open now.