OnHongKongIsle 在香港岛

Although I didn't get a chance on my last Shanghai visit, this trip I took a stroll down my beloved "Backstreet" once again. And the street welcomed me home! :)

I had a wonderful hug with my adopted Chinese grandma (i.e., the "Backstreet Diva") who still expresses constant concern if I've eaten - or paid too much to eat - and, as always, refuses to let me take her photo. Further I had a drink with the bicycle repairmen on the corner. A unique encounter as we'd never been close, but they said they remembered me well. Perhaps my Chinese had improved so we talked more.

Looking backwards through the fence where I looked out on my first morning in China, I saw our beloved waiban, Wang Yifeng, who was checking in a new foreign teacher, coming through my same China placement program, from New York. On August 22nd, I joked that he was exactly where I was three years ago! A joyous Wang Yifeng (aka, "the Wangster") - again always confusing his "he" and "'she" - asked about my HKU studies and invited me to eat... but I'd already had other dinner plans. :)

[Blogging from a Shanghai Motel168.]