My preparations for this trip were relatively simple. While Vicky, Brandon and Tiger all know a bit of both Chinese and English, and I could get along without knowing any Chinese, I wanted to try and learn a little bit about the language. I choose Rosetta Stone and so far have made it through 40 lessons (all of Level 1). I'm also armed with a list of phrases Vicky would like me to be able to speak to her family. (Here I'm really trusting her... a phrase that she says means "the food is delicious" could really mean "I like to eat frogs" and I'd have no way of knowing.)
Of course to go visit a different country you need a passport. In this case China requires a Visa (no, not the credit card) stating permission to enter China.
Given my photography hobby, I have two passports. The second one has a USB cable attached and it is storage for 1 Terabyte of photographs. I also upgraded my memory cards to 16 GB versions so I hopefully won't have to swap them so much.
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