Welcome to my Neighborhood

I had always dreamt of living abroad.  I had imagined a romanticised life in a beautiful foreign country surrounded by gorgeous foreign people and spending every night eating delicious foreign foods.  If you had asked me a year ago where in a years time I would be living and working, China would have been the last thing I would ever had said.  Yet here I am in China my first time living and working abroad. In fact it’s the first time I’ve lived out of home besides my short stints of overseas travel.

Before I set off to China so many people said to me “why on earth would you want to live and work in China?”  The only answer I had was simple “for an adventure”.  Now over a month into my new life, China has answered that question for me.

China is a land of contrast with something around every corner to shock or amaze.  Living in this country I am surrounded by fascinating quirks that feed my curiosity for culture.  The other day while strolling around my neighborhood I thought to myself I wouldn’t have my first living abroad experience any other way!  What a privilege it is to see and experience this whole other life at the mere age of 21. 

My new home and home for the next few months is in Keqiao a small city (by Chinese standards) in Shaoxing County in the prosperous Zhejiang Province in South Eastern China.    The city although not well known and not even a dot on most tourist maps is a great place to live lying on beautiful canals and wetlands surrounded by mountains.  This is a city steaming towards the future modernizing everyday with only a small reminder of the past remaining.

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