There's something disappointing about taking a huge wad of Chinese money to the bank and exchanging it for a much smaller wad of American money. Changing your year's earnings back to American certainly doesn't hold the thrill of changing even $100 into RMB. You give people one green piece of paper; they give you eight red ones, plus additional change. Going the other way is anticlimactic at best.
Changing my money into dollars makes me feel like I have to be more responsible and grown-up with it. It's like finally facing and understanding what I've been telling my students all year: things cost more in America.
One more day left in Dalian.
Posted by at June 10, 2004 3:31 PM