Hello everyone!
I'll bet your surprised to see another entry so late in the game but I wanted to write one final post I suppose. I just got back from my missions trip in Japan and Korea last night and I think I beat jetlag already!
My trip in China was a dream come true! I met so many people and had so many experiences. Climbing The Great Wall and living in a university were just some of the highlights! There are so many things I forgot to write about in blog entries or those I didn't have time for but it was all so great! I'm definitely going back and hopefully sooner than later. It's cool knowing that I have friends from all over the world now.
They say culture shock is worse coming back to your home country and I really think that's true. China, Japan and Korea are really smart countries. They have really great transportation, food, and housing systems that I wish were possible in Canada but we just don't have the population for it. I miss the food (even the things I didn't like). Guess I'll be making trips to our Asian Food stores now aha. I have to get use to certain items not being available at my leisure (like free packets of tissue handed out on the streets and onigiri) but someday I'll go back again!
My final thoughts are that I have a good idea as to what sort of life I will live once I am ready to Teach Abroad. By going to three major Asian countries this summer I got a taste of what living in each on is like. There are a lot of things I'm looking forward to (some that I'm not) but either way I'm excited for the future! I even have in mind a few schools that I might want to apply to someday!
On that note, I'm gonna go apply for a summer job now. Over and out!
~ Jen Collins
