Ni Hao

I was trying to think of the most stereotypical way to open this post and was mulling either “Ni Hao” or “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto” or even maybe “Holy *$%ing *&^% I’m in China!!!!” (note the use of 3 exclamation marks).

Ultimately, I went with “Ni Hao” because the latter phrase has already been beaten to death on various trips to California, Hawaii, Utah, Thailand, Cambodia and who knows where else and that other one contains too many self-censored words for my taste.

But I digress, the underlying point here is that I now claim home as Beijing, China.

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