The Shanghai Ronin is Leaving Shanghai
Taking The Leap
The craziest adventure in my life was not joining the JET Programme and moving to a village in no-man’s-land Japan for two years as the lone foreigner. It was not dropping everything and randomly studying Chinese in Beijing. It wasn’t even venturing through the countryside of China and traveling by bus to the depths of Vietnam alone. No. All of those things, to me, are semi-normal.
The decision to move to Shanghai was the most rash, insane, and completely bewildering change of my life.