It's all coming to a close. I'm getting ready to leave Chenzhou. I've left the apartment that I spent the last ten months in and now I'm staying in a hotel for a couple of days. The hotel is a lot closer to McDonald's and that results in a McDonald's breakfast at least this morning.
I'll check out of the hotel later today and move in with friends that live on the south side of town. They have a sweet three bedroom on the eleventh floor and one of those is empty so I'll have a place to stay while I wait for training to start for my next job.
The training will be in Beijing, so I'll get a week there when my friends Angelo will also be there, so that will be a lot of fun. Then it's back to this end of the country to Shenzhen, where I will at least the next year.
Shenzhen is in Guangdong province, the next province south of where I currently live. If you haven't read my previous posts about Shenzhen, here's a quick rundown: Shenzhen is the border town for Hong Kong. It didn't exist twenty five years ago when Deng Xiaoping declared the area a special economic zone (meaning it gets special rules that allow it to work more like a western economy). Since that time it has grown from literally nothing to a Chinese megacity. It's larger than Hong Kong and probably the least Chinese Chinese city in the country.
It's also extremely wealthy and tropical. There are beaches nearby and several other fantastic cities in the area. Guangzhou is only an hour away and has the area's main airport, with short flights to southeast Asia :-/ the Philippines, and anywhere else you can imagine.
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