Comments on: Losing My Travel Virginity: Beijing

By: Kaitlin Mills

Kaitlin Mills — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:04:16 +0000

Thank you. You commented that’s enough for me.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:52:58 +0000

I have nothing intelligent to add, having never been to China, but great article!

By: Kaitlin Mills

Kaitlin Mills — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:42:43 +0000

It was intense in BeijingI can just imagine how it was outside the major cities, must have been different that’s for sure

By: zarcher

zarcher — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:45:42 +0000

Nice post, You must had a culture shock in Beijing, Do you want to try other cities? I can help you if you want to visit Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. ^_^

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:55:33 +0000

Yup, that’s the feeling! Great piece!

By: Kaitlin Mills

Kaitlin Mills — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:13:25 +0000

Thanks. Josh you couldn’t have described it better. China is so different from everywhere I ever been and at times it I felt like screaming STOP just so I could catch up. Though even if I did it wouldn’t have been understood. Got to love it.

Thanks Seal I felt so unfit climbing that wall especially when a lady in stilettos walked calmly past me, not a single pause in her step.

By: Josh Johnson

Josh Johnson — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:49:42 +0000

i love that fish-out-of-water jack rabbit heart beat thing.

It’s like, your body is rejecting or choking on all this new sensory experience…and you feel ALIVE!

yeah! great one Kaitlin.

By: David Miller

David Miller — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:31:44 +0000

i love this piece.

By: Seal

Seal — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:01:08 +0000

Despite having traveled to Europe twice before my traveling to China. China opened up a part of me I didn’t know even existed. I remember arriving- never had bargained in my life, never had looked so out of place. But, never had I felt so alive, despite my lack of everyday comforts I was used to, because even in Europe, I never really “roughed it” in the way that China really makes you rough it.

My friends and I joked that we would return home and still be pushing through lines and crowds of people, picking off serving plates with our own utensils, and bargaining whenever we would go shopping.

Needless to say, climbing that wall, at times shoulder to should with men and women three times my age going twice as fast as me. Finally, I stopped to take in everything, and a child ran to a hole in the wall to urinate next to me. I really couldn’t help but laugh to myself. Oh, China.

Such an amazing experience, I can completely understand.