merlabroad

Leaving one home for another

Posted by merlabroad | 11th July 2009

It has taken me a long time to write this, my final entry about my five months spent in China. It probably would take me even longer were it not for the fact that the Boston Globe has chosen to print my story in their section about study abroad students, 'World Class', and they are linking to this blog, so I want it to be finished. If you've come here after reading the Globe, thank you and I hope you enjoy this blog! A big thank you to the Globe too, and my friends in Clark's Communications department who helped me submit my story!

So here I am, back in the States for over a month (and what a crazy month it has been) and I'm falling back into familiarity with everything again. But I never feel far from China. I see it and hear it and smell it in Worcester all the time, and I'm so grateful for Worcester's cultural diversity which gives me that opportunity. It's not just the Chinese restaurants and the Asian markets, but I hear people on the street speaking Mandarin, the smell of fryi

Continued | Marlene in China

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