{"id":16040,"date":"2015-04-30T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basicallybeyondbasic.com\/?p=16040"},"modified":"2023-09-06T23:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T03:37:29","slug":"huh-what-do-you-mean-im-going-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2015\/04\/30\/huh-what-do-you-mean-im-going-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Huh? What Do You Mean I&#8217;m Going to China!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The way certain\u00a0things unfold is simply unbelievable. It has long\u00a0been a dream of mine to travel to China. Since middle school, I have been curious to know what China is\u00a0all about. The culture. The style. 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Apply!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16127 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3076817098_e15174c311_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"3076817098_e15174c311_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,height=225,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3076817098_e15174c311_o.jpg 300w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1024,height=768,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3076817098_e15174c311_o.jpg 1024w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=576,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3076817098_e15174c311_o.jpg 768w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1536,height=1152,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3076817098_e15174c311_o.jpg 1536w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=2048,height=1536,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3076817098_e15174c311_o.jpg 2048w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=290,height=218,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3076817098_e15174c311_o.jpg 290w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=407,height=305,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3076817098_e15174c311_o.jpg 407w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=800,height=600,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3076817098_e15174c311_o.jpg 800w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=512,height=384,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3076817098_e15174c311_o.jpg 512w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1220,height=915,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3076817098_e15174c311_o.jpg 1220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0hung up and typed the fastest essay I have probably ever written. Gathering the application materials under such short notice was a little difficult but I did my best. I called one of my very good friends who I studied Chinese with in high school and asked her if she&#8217;d like to apply. We did some traveling together\u00a0when we volunteered at Chinese Camp and it was always our dream to go to China together! Once her parents said yes, she started an application too!<\/p>\n<p>THE VERY NEXT DAY, WE WERE BOTH ACCEPTED!!!<\/p>\n<p>I was in total disbelief. WHAT? Am I ACTUALLY going to China this summer? I logged on and retrieved my plane ticket. Just yesterday, this was not even remotely on my radar and here we are today- 24 hours later- NOW\u00a0I&#8217;M GOING TO CHINA!\u00a0AHHH!<\/p>\n<p>We will explore Shanghai with the summer program and then my friend and I decided we want to stay an extra week in China to visit Beijing and see the Great Wall of China so we&#8217;ll be doing that afterward with a few other people in our group.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16128 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nanjingstreet-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"nanjingstreet\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,height=254,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nanjingstreet.jpg 300w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=650,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nanjingstreet.jpg 768w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=290,height=246,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nanjingstreet.jpg 290w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=407,height=345,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nanjingstreet.jpg 407w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=800,height=677,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nanjingstreet.jpg 800w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=512,height=434,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nanjingstreet.jpg 512w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1024,height=867,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nanjingstreet.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THIS TRIP IS GOING TO BE\u00a0<strong>AMAZING!\u00a0<\/strong>I\u00a0finally get to use the Chinese vocabulary I have been working on since I was 13 years old! You can bet I&#8217;ll be bringing along my camera and blogging laptop on this trip! Something tells me this is going to\u00a0be a trip to remember! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way certain\u00a0things unfold is simply unbelievable. It has long\u00a0been a dream of mine to travel to China. Since middle &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5511],"tags":[3982,5916],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Huh? 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