After a long day of sitting on planes, we are back home from our China trip. It has been two-and-a-half weeks since we were last in America, and everything feels a little off (perhaps the severe jet-lag I’m feeling has something to do with it). Faces that have seemed commonplace to me for much of the past 19 years felt foreign to me when I stepped off the plane in Minneapolis today. It was strange to hear English as the primary language again after hearing so little of it the last 20-some days, and stranger to start speaking it so much in public again after speaking mostly Cantonese and Mandarin in China.

Our trip was action-packed, at times too much so. There are things I wanted to write about but just didn’t have the time or energy at the end of the day. So I’ll probably be posting addition reflections about the trip in the coming days. I’m also in the process of uploading almost 20 GB of pictures. It’s a good thing I’ve got three days before returning to work. Settling back into my daily routine is going to feel so boring for a while after the last three weeks.