This was a trip to Berlin for a memorial for my good friend and boss, the artist Dieter Froese. A chance to reconnect with Kay, Alex, Reggie and to visit old friends Tomas Mumme and Bettina Kopp.
This was a trip to Berlin for a memorial for my good friend and boss, the artist Dieter Froese. A chance to reconnect with Kay, Alex, Reggie and to visit old friends Tomas Mumme and Bettina Kopp.
Eva was gracious enough to take me to her birth village. It was a plane ride, a long car trip with her uncle and aunt and a half hour walk through rice fields to arrive at the house she was born in. She and her relatives lit fireworks on the family grave. Later we visited with another aunt in a larger town. Incredible trip.
We zipped up to Beijing for a quick 5 day trip to Beijing at the end of the Shanghai trip. I hung tight to He Jae and Han, the 2 Koreans in the group. As Koreans they could read much of the Chinese signage and they were very comfortable in the Asian environment. Although no one could believe they didn’t speak Chinese.
I gotta admit this is the only trip / vacation where I had a bad time. I went over in a bad mood, got sick, was rude, was rude to. Left a bad impression on me and undoubtably on those people around me. When not at the hospital mainly stayed in my room. Kicking myself for not accepting an invitation from Jason Robertson to join a class with Dr. Wang. Oh, well.
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