Christine Chang Photography

Trip Reflections

August 30th, 2006

My two weeks in China was great because I got to get away from the modern world for a while. During the weekdays I was in Bao An, which is a city in the outskirts of Shenzhen; it’s a 30 minute drive from Hong Kong. It’s a nice thing, not having a cell phone and not needing to check email.

(above) Here’s Bao An, and the area where I went to get a cold iced tea whenever I had a break. It was around 110 degrees Farenheit and very tropical and humid, so combined with the pollution (I only saw a “blue” sky a few days out of the two weeks that I was there) it was a bit difficult for me to get used to at first. I lived a minute walking distance away from here. If you notice, there’s trash on the side of the sidewalk. I was taught very quickly not to walk along the buildings, as the people who live there throw all of their trash not in a trash can, but out the window. Stepping on pothole covers were also not suggested, as some of the pothole covers weren’t really covered and a coworker of mine has fell through and into the sewage water.