Today is our last full day! I am so sad! I do not want to leave!

Today I am saying all my goodbyes to the locals, the Linden family, the Linden Centre, the dog Nala, the chaperones, the staffs, the students, Yang Zhuo Ran, the floors, the rooms, the food,my bed, the dining hall, the cheese factory, the food, Si Fang Jie, Dali Old Town, Lake Er Hai, the air quality, the mountains, the food, the laundry place, the sunny spot that always hits Yang Zhuo Ran, the TV room, my room, the heaters, the food, etc.... 

I thought I was coming to Microcampus for many reasons. To discover a new culture, and to step outside of the bubble etc. Microcampus was much more than that. I experienced so many things and I also learnt a lot about myself. I learnt some strengths and weaknesses that I have, and also what I am extremly bad at. I have made some small mistakes, and also some big ones. Thorugh that I have realized the extreme levels of procrastination that I have, and also sometimes I have an inability to follow rules.

Since, today is our last full day we are going to use the time to pack up, say our final goodbyes and do any last things that we wish too. Today I headed down with Noam to Mr. Yang, the cormorant fisher, to give a picture that we took when we were on Lake Erhai and say my final goodbye. I am grateful that we will be returning to Shanghai only to begin winter break. I will use that time to rest and catch up on any missing assignments from school. 

Today is the last day. Instead of writing about what I did today I will be writing more about why I came on this Microcampus Trip. Before I came on this trip I wanted to come was because I wanted to experience the clean air. But also I wanted to be more independent and experience what life is like outside of the bubble. After coming on this trip I realized that all these reasons are true but I also came on this trip to learn about being aware of my surroundings and thinking twice before taking action. Not only that but I also learned about leading from behind.

At first when Cynthia, Kelly and I went to pick Mr. Yang up at his shop he did not want to go out due to the rain, jut like Mr.T expected. We did bring our own umbrella for him. He eventually agreed to come out and brought out his own giant umbrella. From there we trudged back to YangZhuoRan in the light drizzle.

Today was the last full day of our Microcampus group trip. We spent most of the time today packing up, saying goodbye, and getting ready to go.

Since today was the last day with a daily meeting I decided to volunteer and be the facilitator for the meeting.

After the daily meeting Max and I went to grab the laundry.

After that I got to work finishing up reflections and journal posts that I did not do.

Then Sean and I went to the Linden Centre to return our books and also return the DVDs that we borrowed.

Today, since Inquiry work was out of the way, the main focus was Service Learning. Thankfully, in our group, Alexis had already edited the majority of the video, and all that was left was subtitling. Unfortunately, our Service Learning Partner had a thick accent, and it took near forever to finish subtitling, and cutting the parts that we couldn't make out. FInally, we finished, and submitted our project for review at 2 PM. First, we reviewed the Chinese subtitles with Evy, a native Chinese speaker. Afterwards, we reviewed the video (with subtitles corrected) with Mr.

Some may recall, I have had a post about why I think I came to Microcampus. However, after I have attended this amazing program, I realize that some of these reasons differ from the reasons that I originally thought that they would be.

For my last journal post, it will be about why I came to Microcampus. 

In the beginning, Microcampus was what I thought would be a fun learning experience. However, I did not realize that it is much more than just fun. Microcampus is about engaging in and understanding a whole community of people, and, through that process, learning both about yourself as well as Xizhou.