A friend will be going to China in a few months with the same program I went with twelve years ago. It reminded me that despite planning several times to immortalize those memories in prose, I never have. But now I think I'll change that.
I have changed the names of all the American players in the following mini-series, for simplicity's sake, but left the anglicized names of the Chinese characters for the same reason. I will remain as faithful to memory as possible, but beg forgiveness should my memory ever deviate from "what really happened" according to anyone else who was there. These are the stories as I remember them.
To my excellent cousin-in-law about to embark on a promisingly insane journey, these stories are for you as both a preëmptive commiseration and a warning. Enjoy.
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