[35-Days Trip 2010] a TRIP going HOME

There was a time when I was in the college, I watched half of my classmates rushing into a trip short or long, at least twice a year. That trip was called "going home". At that time I didn't quite get the feeling of having to consider "going home" as a trip happen once in a pretty long while.

Now, I guess I finally got it, even though I'm probably staying in the stage of "denial". Shanghai was the longest stop of my 35-days trip. However, during my 13 days of stay, I tended to feel like I was just hanging out to meet friends, familiy from home instead of from thousands of miles away. Of course, I didn't miss the World Expo 2010, just like a Beijingnese wouldn't miss Olympics 2008, but even that wasn't "big" enough to make it as a "trip".

For a long time since I lived in New York, I had to tell friends "I'm going home - refer to where I lived in the city" in a quite awkward way, especially if I was saying it in Chinese.  There's something special about "home" in my mind, no substitute.
Maybe that's the reason it's still hard to connect HOME to Trip and this disconnection came up unconsciously. For example, I was uploading my trip photos by time sequence and after the folder of HangZhou, I headed directly to Japan.

Oops, guess I'll just follow my guts and represent this stop of my trip temporarily by