{"id":3012,"date":"2014-06-08T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/setcourseforchina.wordpress.com\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2014-06-08T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T17:49:55","slug":"homeward-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/?p=3012","title":{"rendered":"Homeward Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a very long year, filled with lots of studying and lots of hiking!\u00a0 I am so grateful that I was able to study abroad for a year and explore almost every region of China.\u00a0 From the bustling cities of Beijing and Shanghai to the lush green regions of Guangzhou and Guilin to the mouth numbing spiciness of Sichuan to the historic region of Xi&#8217;an to the Central Asian influence in Xinjiang- I&#8217;ve experienced it all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been extremely fortunate to have wonderful teachers who have pushed me beyond limits I didn&#8217;t even know I had-who feel more like dedicated parents than teachers.\u00a0 They have taught me what working hard really means and I am grateful for that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/img_1651.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3009\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1651.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(These are my classmates for Chinese 301.\u00a0 My teacher, Xia Laoshi, is in the center.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, I learned more about myself.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve learned that I am capable of speaking another language when I thought I couldn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Even through the bad days (the really bad days), I expressed myself in a different language.\u00a0 This helped me understand about the Chinese way of thinking vs. the Western way of thinking.\u00a0 Interestingly, I think I share more similarities with the Chinese way of thinking.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve learned to be more confident and to go out and try new things!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve metaphorically and literally conquered mountains!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/img_1606.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3011\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1606.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for joining me on this adventure.\u00a0 It means the world to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a very long year, filled with lots of studying and lots of hiking!\u00a0 I am so grateful that I was able to study abroad for a year and explore almost every region of China.\u00a0 From the bustling cities of Beijing and Shanghai to the lush green regions of Guangzhou and Guilin to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}