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While my fellow JETs were hopping all around Asia during their vacations, I usually went back to the US. My first non-home trip during my JET years was to Hong Kong in February '94, where I visited my cousin Scarlet Fu. I went with my friend Mark Goldberg, who through one of those small-world coincidences, had known Scarlet back at Cornell.
We only spent a few days there, but we hit three different countries in that span: Hong Kong (which was still independent then), Macau, and China. It was a very interesting study in contrasts, with Hong Kong being a prosperous and thriving city, Macau as a former power but now fading into irrelevance, and Shenzen (just across the border) as a poor, but up and coming "special economic zone" of China.
