Jerry Slocum & Michelle Truong

The final banquet

Our last full day in China! We surprised Wendy for her birthday right at midnight with a durian cheesecake that tasted like durian bread. During the day today was everyone’s last chance to finish up their projects, so for the most part we spent the day working. By 4 PM, everyone was finished and each group gave a final presentation on their projects.

I think everyone did a magnificent job and Professor Sheehan said that he was very proud of our work. After presentations, we all headed to the final banquet via subway and Professor Sheehan’s wife and friend joined us! The dinner was a real treat and we even had cake for Wendy’s birthday! This was the first time most of us used chopsticks to eat cake, but it was too delicious to resist. Professor gave a toast, followed by the rest of us. After we presented him with a gift. We gave Professor Sheehan a figurine of himself with the caption “GEA 2019″. Afterwards the birthday celebrations continued at Karaoke. Everyone was glad to be done with their projects and ready to have fun.

Professor Sheehan and his gift