August 1, 2014

Today we drove out to the Chinese supermarket, about half an hour away from our house.

I didn’t expect to feel such a rush of emotions upon entering the little shop. People were chatting in Chinese, clear and Beijingy…no Sichuanhua.

There were so many familiar items, like this shop was just a tiny chunk of China set down to exist in Buffalo. I wanted to cry, suddenly missing China in a way I had yet to experience. I’m really gone, I’m really not going back.

For the past two weeks, I’ve been really averse to even picking up a textbook and studying my Chinese. Today I realized that the culture shock is over, I’m ready to jump back in.

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