Guangzhou Experience

I will enumerate, in no particular order, the things I did in Guangzhou China that I’ve never experienced back home in Manila:

1. Travel alone via plane to and from Guangzhou (or anywhere for that matter).
2. Lodge in a hospital for 5 days.
3. Sleep in a hospital bed for 5 nights.
4. Spend my 25^th birthday (I’ll never be 25 again on my other birthdays to come, right?).
5. I got to see a live polar bear!
6. I got to see an elephant play soccer, bow, sit and do a headstand.
7. I got to see the largest safari park in China (with 333 hectares of land) and all the other animals I got to see for the 1^st time.
8. I got to bring my own grocery cart in the grocery store.
9. I got to pack my own grocery (w/o plastic bags) in the grocery cart.
10. I got to pull my own grocery cart from the grocery back to the hospital.
11. Heard mass surrounded by Chinese and Nigerian.
12. Sharing a table with a stranger to eat at a restaurant.
13. Ride an ambulance (from the airport to the hospital).
14. The hand & foot spa service of a Chinese.
15. People staring at me because I speak alien to them. Hehehe!
16. Going to Guangzhou’s entertainment place – by the Pearl River. A night of dancing, tai chi, badminton, juggling, biking, roller skating, jogging, dog-walking, etc.

Things I did in Guangzhou I wish I’d do back home:

1. Walk! Walk! Walk…and more walking!
2. Take the subway to go around the city (MRT & LRT for Manila).
3. Get to admire the lighted skyscrapers at night.

Things in Guangzhou that reminded me of Manila:

1. Shopping! Shopping! Shopping…and more shopping in Divisoria-like and Greenhills-like shopping centers.
2. Tea, dumplings and chopsticks.
3. Hand & foot spa service.
4. Chinatown – the food, the smell, the place, the people.
5. The Pearl River reminded me of Pasig River and Baywalk combined.
6. The Almeda’s.

This is my 5-day Guangzhou experience. Personal, unique and unforgettable.