Kunshan Tour 2005!!! & a Winston-Salem Visitor
Dr. Fox and I served as "international representatives" to the Kunshan Autumn Investment Promotion Fair in Kunshan, about an hour and a half from Shanghai. We were carried around all day from one event to the other to give everything an international flare. To make this place look attractive to international investors, they bring in quite a few international folks, just to make it look like a really important international event. The day yeilded a free lunch, a one and a half hour tour of Kunshan by bus (there are only so many factories under construction you can look at), a visit to the nearby hostorical water town and a free dinner. I can't complain too much because it's near the end of the month and I can use all of the free meals I can get until payday. Jerry shopped for baskets and a quilt in the watertown for Jody. Jody's off on a mountain biking trip out west towards Tibet for two weeks. For those of you who know Jody, this is not a big suprise.
Busy week this week. It's really helping me keep focus with so much going on in my life elsewhere right now.
Katrena Henderson, an Appalachian alumni, visited Fudan today. She's the International Students and Scholars Advisor at Winston-Salem State University. It was great to talk with someone about my experiences so far and see a familiar face from home. I met Katrena last May in Boone at a conference, so it was fun to see her again on this side of the world. We had dinner tonight with Li Hong, also an Appalachian grad who works at the Foreign Affairs Office with me, and her husband who is a professor at Fudan.
More soon...
posted by Matt Dull @ 9:20 PM
1 Comments:
CFD IS OVER...well at least until switch day....I will be in touch with you about the how we did man...FREE FOOD IS ALWAYS GOOD FOOD TOO!!!!(even if it may be sketch..haha)
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