I am back in China…kind of. If you ask Americans what Taiwan is, they’ll say a separate country. If you ask Taiwanese, they’ll also say it’s a different country. If you ask all of mainland China, Taiwan is China. Personally, I haven’t decided. China is an ambiguous place in general. The places within the defined borders are so vastly different from each other and people can’t always communicate with each other (even though technically, it’s all one country).
Anyway, the flight was obscenely long this time. Over the summer when I went, I had a direct flight from JFK to Beijing which totally only about 13 hours. This time I had a connection in Detroit (where I met up with four other classmates) to Osaka and then to our final destination of Taipai, Taiwan. In total it took us 27 hours of travel. It should have taken only 25, but for some reason I still don’t understand, we sat on the tarmac in Detroit for two hours. Once we got to Taipei we took a bus to National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), the place where we’ll be staying for a while.
We don’t know much of where exactly we’ll be staying or doing yet, but we’ll spend two weeks (including Chinese New Year) in Taiwan, take a flight to Hong Kong and spend a few days there, before finally going to Beijing to start our classes.
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