Ni hao ma? Wo hen hao, he wo shi meiguo ren.
Hey, how are you? I'm good, and I'm an American.
I saw all the tourist sites like the Great Wall and Terra-cotta Warriors as well as non-westernized places such as markets and Nanjing road. I ate scorpion, stinky tofu and thousand year old egg, and managed to acquire a large amount of of pirate video games that will be hitting eBay shortly.
Aside for the pollution, cities in China are much cleaner than cities in the US, and the police weren't as annoying as I had expected. I stayed with a seventeen year old Chinese kid for a few day which was pretty cool... I actually really like Chinese culture. I spoke as much Chinese as I know (which is very little
) but didn't really have a problem communicating.