I am going to be teaching at Shandong University of Science & Technology (SDUST) for two weeks. The University of Worcester has a 2+2 degree with SDUST and one semester of the 2nd year in China is delivered by Worcester staff. I will be teaching Marketing Management with a colleague. But what I am looking forward to the most is returning to Jinan, as it was the first place I ever visited in China. In 2010 after landing in Shanghai I went to Jinan to visit colleagues. Despite living in China for 3 years and visiting Qingdao a couple of times (also in Shandong province), I have never been back to Jinan. So I am interested and excited to see how the city has changed over the last 8 years, and whether I can still remember it. Whilst the trip has not started well, with my flight from Hannover to Frankfurt cancelled and my colleague’s flight from Birmingham to Frankfurt cancelled and us now having to take separate routes, arriving in Beijing 7 hours apart, I am looking forward to the visit. I am sure both Jinan and I have changed over the last 8 years, so let’s see who has changed the most.
Robin Bell 