Continuing off my Twitter thread (found below), my trip to Asia was quite eventful. I had already come into it with the mindset that I wanted to record as much as I could.
However, like I said in my thread, I got heat stroke a week before heading to Vietnam. I was actually quite sick the entire trip: I stressed myself out from planning and the heat didn’t help any. My cousin actually had to take me to a kids doctor (I honestly don’t know why it had to be a pediatrician of all places) during the tail end of the trip because I wasn’t doing any better.
The amount of home remedies that I was put through….
As bad as I make it sound, I really did enjoy my time in China. It was nice seeing my family again and meet people I didn’t meet on my last trip a decade ago. I liked hanging out with my mom’s side while my parents were off doing their own thing.
I liked thinking about how, though I didn’t live here, this was as much part of my childhood as Edmonton.
This was the view from on top of my uncle’s apartment complex. On one side were tall apartments that weren’t there the last time I visited, and on the other my auntie’s small garden, and in the distance the Guangzhou subway.
It’s hard to see, but even though a lot of things have changed, some things still remain. Right outside the entrance to the complex my cousins live in, is an old unkept house: their old house. Moss took over the structure, it was dirty and dusty. They use it more as a shed now but I remember back when the walkways weren’t as narrow, we’d go in and out of the house and run around outside unobstructed.
I regret not thinking ahead and capturing the house on camera.
The intent of this video was to hopefully incite the same nostalgia I felt walking through these alleyways that Spring.
This area is actually no more. The government purchased the land and moved everyone out into a more metropolitan area.
By this time last year, the land that was home for so many generations was completely transformed and is no more the home it used to be.
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