Great. In some ways it sounds a bit like Cuba, in the sense that I saw people who didn't have any trouble being happy with a whole lot less than what we North Americans take for granted. And I was happier there myself. Of course, it was a very exciting and different time for me. I might well have felt equally happy as a Cuban visiting Canada....it's very refreshing to see a whole other way of life and be free of all the stuff that's usually around you.

Can you describe what a city of 6 million people is like in China? The buildings, the businesses, the traffic, the markets, the social life, etc?

Are you teaching English there?

- LH