As some of you know, but we haven’t mentioned here yet… Kat and I are heading to China for a vacation. It’s the first travelling Kat and I have done together for a long time: all of our travels for the last few years were to-and-from North Carolina.<\/p>\n
We’re leaving April 13 and starting the trip with three days in Hangzhou<\/a>, which is where Zhejiang University is: the home of our Dual Degree Program<\/a>. Janice is there, as are a bunch of students I know from CMPT 120. It will be nice to see them.<\/p>\n But mostly, after a thousand meetings talking about the DDP as an abstract concept, I want to see the damn place. Hangzhou is supposed to be one of the places Chinese people go on vacation in China, so I have a good feeling about getting to hang out there for a few days.<\/p>\n Then, we’re going back to Beijing and joining a tour, “Yangtze Interlude<\/a>”. Our tour has day 1 == April 16, so you can do the math if you really want to figure out exactly where we are on each day.<\/p>\n The tour is pretty much “tourist highlights of China”. Since I have never been to China, that seems appropriate. I have also never been on a package tour. I suspect that somewhere around day 13, I’ll hear myself say something like “we already saw three ancient temples; why the hell would I want to see another one?”<\/p>\n