It’s been a week since my feet touched on ground unknown. Since then I’ve stumbled through too many conversations to count with broken mandarin. Tried food I didn’t know existed (sour plumb juice you bamboozling fiend). Interacted with history older than the U. S. many times over. Challenged some assumptions. Was dazzled by China’s beauty….

Being genuine to your values. Sharing your perspective. Being curious about the experiences of others.

It want something she was aware of. It was simply something she was. Something she couldn’t help. And something that I admired.

Hard to put into words. It’s something I didn’t have a frame of reference for. The mind is being expanded.

Imagine Walmart built a city. With apartments, restaurants, and then brought all of their employees there. That’s what the manufacturer of footwear for China’s middle classic, which is larger than the entire US population by almost 2x, Yearcon did. Today I left that city (Qing Tian) and took a 45 minute “Uber” (DiDi) that cost…