Thoughts on China

Well, I can’t go into it, but something happened yesterday that puts my whole trip up in the air. How it comes down, only time will tell. It’s not a bad thing, but what would ordinarily be a great opportunity, seems so unwelcome now. The trip I was looking more forward to than anything I’ve ever done is, at the very least, going to be cut short. I can’t believe that anything has stopped me from just going and sorting everything out when I get back, but it has.

I’m going to try to see if I can go for three weeks. After all, I bought $980 nonrefundable tickets, a Chinese visa cost about $162, including FedEx each way, a $29 sim chip for cell phone service in China, etc. That’s just the things that will surely be no good if I don’t go. It doesn’t include the numerous guidebooks, etc., that I bought this spring and that go out of date quickly with the continual construction that is going on in the cities.

OK, enough lamenting. All I have to do is look a couple posts down…that is:

塞翁失马, 焉知祸福

(sàiwēngshīmǎ, yānzhīhuòfú)