{"id":11,"date":"2010-09-27T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.darden.virginia.edu\/international\/?p=11"},"modified":"2010-09-27T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T16:36:41","slug":"what-do-china-and-chile-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.darden.virginia.edu\/international\/2010\/09\/27\/what-do-china-and-chile-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What do China and Chile have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"has-dropcap\">G<\/span>reetings from China!\u00a0 As I sit here watching darkness descend on the Beijing skyline from my 19<sup>th<\/sup> story window near the heart of Beijing\u2019s Zhongguancun District\u2014also known as China\u2019s <em>Silicon Valley<\/em>, and home to what are arguably China\u2019s top two universities in Peking University and Tsinghua University\u2014it\u2019s great to think that the sun is now rising in Charlottesville and classes will begin for the week in less than an hour.\u00a0 While I miss being back at Darden, especially now that the section athletic competitions have begun for Darden Cup points, I am enjoying the experience of living here in China.<\/p>\n<p>Although I had taken a few vacations outside of the U.S. growing up, I got my first taste of living internationally less than ten years ago after volunteering to work as a missionary in Chile on behalf of my church.\u00a0 As I spent the better half of two years living and working among a culture much different than my own, I was taken by the similarities I shared with the Chilean people. \u00a0I really grew to care a lot for them as we worked side-by-side and as I struck up random conversations with people in the street; in fact, I even ended up marrying someone from Chile!\u00a0 These past three weeks in China have surprisingly had a very similar feel to my first few weeks in Chile.\u00a0 While I am still not sure whether the feeling of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu is due more to the realization that my language skills aren\u2019t as good as I thought (everyone talks <em>so<\/em> fast!) or because of commonalities between China and Chile, living here does have a very familiar feeling.\u00a0 That being said, my wife has remarked on more than one occasion how <em>such-and-such<\/em> is just how things work in Chile. \u00a0She almost even feels at home\u2026 until, of course, she steps out onto the street and realizes that she can\u2019t read any signs or understand what people are saying.\u00a0 Our little son seems to have adapted quite quickly and is already learning new words from his little Chinese friends during evening visits to the playground\u2014he even made friends with a Chinese grandfather the other day whom he played with on the see-saw.\u00a0 One thing we have thoroughly enjoyed is walking down the street amidst the rest of the people, exchanging glances, smiles, the occasional verbal greeting, and sampling the local cuisine along the way.\u00a0 Of 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