Homebound

Sitting at a cafe at the airport in Beijing listening to Jimmy Eat World and shortly heading back to Finland. Finally. China has spawned some mixed feelings; I don't really know what to think. Individual people who I met were very nice and polite, but collectively I just don't see the system working for many reasons, which I may elaborate on in the future. The inability to be able to trust people is also annoying. And ultimately I got the feeling that people don't take pride in their work and they lack the artisan spirit. And that's bad.

Oh, and what is it with airport food: the breakfast here was horrible. You would imagine that it wouldn't be too much to just do things well, but no...