Genuinely never been so excited to travel before. Marxism-Leninism makes everything so much better lol
I really want to interact with people there, I should start getting some translation apps set up and learn basic phrases in Mandarin. I want to show I'm not an arrogant dumb USian lol, I've heard the Chinese are very nice but I am still a little scared to give a bad impression and get marked as a dumb American.
For translation I would recommend Pleco as you can have the person you are communicating with draw the characters and then translate that. It isn't perfect but I used it heavily when I lived there