After weeks of being unsure as to whether things would work out, I'm finally set to meet the guy from Wuxi around the end of this month. He's currently on a business trip in Jiangxi and he'll be away for most of the month, but he'll be heading back around the 27th-ish. From the looks of things, we'll most likely be able to meet at least once before I head back to the US.

Neglected to mention this earlier, but his job is to analyze DNA. The business trip he's on right now is to train newbies in Jiangxi to analyze crime scene DNA. It's like CSI, but in China. :D

EDIT: Oh hell, here's one of the randomly endearing messages he wrote to me in his last email:

听到你到云南玩的那么开心，我也非常高兴, 中国有很多好玩的地方，但是地方太多了，你在短暂的时间里不能全玩遍。呵呵 慢慢挑选几个你喜欢的地方去玩。 -- Hearing that you had so much fun in Yunnan makes me really happy too. China has a lot of fun places, but there's too many. You can't see all of them with such a short period of time left. Take time to carefully decide which places you'd like to visit next.

^-^

On that note, other than Wuxi, I think the other place I'd like to visit before leaving is Suzhou. Apparently, it's called the Venice of China. *o*