Adventure to the End

Weather  64F and Sunny
Time  845am Saturday

This week is finally over, I am happy to be finished with school.  I am officially no longer a student and I am only a short term tourist.  Thankfully, so is everyone else on the trip.  I will now also be able to go see some sites with my brother - who arrived yesterday afternoon.

End of School
This week we all had to sit down and finish school with some finals.  I thankfully only had two finals, one from the distance Purdue course and another final for the local Purdue Students Only Thermodynamics II course.  I had studied plenty for the Purdue course and I believe it strongly paid off.  The Thermo test could have gone much better.  I am very excited that school has finally come to a close here in China.  It marks the beginning of the end.
The end coming around is a big deal because I am looking for to coming home.  I recognize that I will likely not be able to come back to China for quite sometime.  I am looking forward to coming back and speaking more Chinese than I do now.  It is very exciting to be a tourist again, very little responsibility and staying active each day with a goal of seeing everything there is to see.  School and homework no longer are in the way!

World Expo 2010 Visit 1
On Thursday May 6th, I visited the Expo for the first time.  I made my way to plenty of the pavilions and it was a bit of a scouting mission for the rest of the folks on the trip.  Since I only had the two finals, I was able to go out while many students had a final on Thursday evening.  The top pavilions I saw on Thursday were, Italy, Netherlands, Canada, United States, Sweden, Germany, Spain.  For more details click "Read More"  The other pavilions were either not worth visiting or not worth mentioning.  It was a pretty cool experience.  It is along the lines of what I was expecting.

Arrival of Brother
Surprise!  My brother has come as a surprise to many people, friends and family.  He is here for a ten day blitz of China until we leave on the 17th.  We are planning on going to see the sites of Shanghai and have flights booked for a short trip to Beijing during the middle of the coming week!  I am happy to have be able to share some of this with someone so close to me.  It also is a great conclusion for my trip because I have become accustom to the happenings in China.  Dropping in a fresh perspective that is seeing all of these differences for the first time is a very interesting contrast.

Biber