我想上海

I’ve officially been home for a week and a half and I think I’ve gotten over my jet lag. So far, I’ve gone to the beach, met up with some friends and spent way too much time watching tv. Although I am glad to be back in the States where there’s fresh air, real pizza, and fast Internet, I miss Shanghai. I miss the daily baozi, the struggle to understand the language, the convenient metro system, my friends and so much more. There were so many aspects of living in a city as interesting as Shanghai that I don’t have at home. With that, I also don’t have any of my study abroad friends around. I know they’re all having their own adventures in Thailand, Hong Kong, Australia and all around the US, but I still miss our daily meet-ups in the CIEE library and our weekend hangouts at Ellen’s. (Luckily, we still have WeChat to communicate.)

I know that I’ll see some friends again when I head back to Penn State but I am sad to be so far away from the others. Although these are the more depressing aspects of the end of studying abroad, I am still so happy and thankful to have had the opportunity to spend three months in China. In addition to improving my Chinese, I was able to learn more about China than I’ve ever known in my life and travel to places I’ve only dreamed of. I couldn’t be more appreciative of what I experienced  and I can only start thinking about the next adventure.

As this is my last post as a blogger here, I hope you have enjoyed my posts about my adventure in China!

Looking at Shanghai from the observatory deck at the Pearl Tower

Looking at Shanghai from the observatory deck at the Pearl Tower