in actuality, it's been 3 days since i've gotten back from Shanghai.
i know it's like the most developed city in all of china, but i was too lazy to pay for internet so there.
but shanghai was quite a trip.
i never felt so at a home in a place i've never been to in my life.
it was the weirdest feeling ever.
i started feeling nostalgic for a past i never got to experience.
and though seeing shanghai made me understand my dad a little bit more, it also made me realize that there's so much i don't know about my father. It's like God, I guess. there's so much of Him i don't know quite yet :)
anyway, my dad left shanghai when he was 17 to start a new life. i guess i'm part of that new life. he has never really thought of going back. we don't have family left there anymore. but i did get to meet up with my dad's childhood friend who stayed behind when so many people tried to flee the country in the 60's.
it was his childhood friend who lived on the third floor of his building. she took me to where he was born and where they played and where they could live like they were free.
this was was where he lived. you just have to walk up the stairs and turn left. people still live there now.
i think if he stayed, this woman and him probably would have gotten married. and then i probably wouldn't have been born.
and i wouldn't have gone to my dad's birthplace and felt like all this.
destiny is funny.
anway, now i'm back in beijing, and i started my 2nd set of classes. next weekend, i'm going on an overnight train to xi'an. look! here's a map :)
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