The Inevitable is Coming
So my time in China is winding down. I have less than two days before I leave. I only really have about 48 hours until I leave Beijing. I have been trying to avoid thinking about it, but whenever I have spare time I have thought about leaving. I have been busy enough this week to not think about things too much, but it is getting harder.
I know that Friday night I won't be able to hang out with MCK, Taylor or any of my other friends. I know that I won't be able to go eat dumplings on the weekend at the local cafteria. I won't be able to see my friends Kitty, Wenday and Sunny. I can't just pick up my cell phone, give them a call and hang out. I won't be able to have any more snowball fights with classmates here. Even though I am not the biggest fan of fixing computers (or trying to), I won't be able to try and help my classmates do this anymore. I won't be able to enjoy the smiles I see when I chat with my teachers. I won't be able to ride my skateboard to class in the morning. I won't be able to see everyone ice skating on the frozen pond. I won't be able to eat dinner with my 73 year old landlord.
There are too many things I won't be able to do, so I guess I should focus on what I can do when I get back to Seattle.
Tonight was a fun night. I went out to dinner with a few of my classmates, specifically Tammy, Janny, Cassie, Carolyn and Sonia. We walked to a nearby restaurant and ate some great food thanks to Tammy and Janny. We chatted about all sorts of things, especially my trip to Yunnan. A few of them plan to go, so they wanted me to share my experiences with them. After dinner they gave me a little present. It was a little skateboard keychain. I was really appreciative that they gave it to me. It means that they were somewhere and saw this little keychain with a skateboard on it and mut have said to themselves, 'oh wow, Jon would really like this'. That in itself makes it even better.
After we ate dinner we all walked back to their apartments. I checked Janny and Tammy's new apartment, had a beer and chatted it up. After a few minutes I had to leave to meet Sunny. She wanted to see my pictures of Yunnan because she has been there before. I thought we would be able to check them out online, but that wasn't working out to well, so we decided to go look at the photos she took while she travelled around Yunnan and other parts of China.
After we looked through all the pictures and she scolded me for not visiting some places in Beijing she showed me where to catch a cab. I slowly walked across campus on the slippery ground to where I could catch a cab and then left. That pretty much brings me up to this point. Right now I am just uploading the more than four hundred photos I took while traveling in Yunnan. I hope you guys enjoy looking at them. I took them for you guys.
I know that Friday night I won't be able to hang out with MCK, Taylor or any of my other friends. I know that I won't be able to go eat dumplings on the weekend at the local cafteria. I won't be able to see my friends Kitty, Wenday and Sunny. I can't just pick up my cell phone, give them a call and hang out. I won't be able to have any more snowball fights with classmates here. Even though I am not the biggest fan of fixing computers (or trying to), I won't be able to try and help my classmates do this anymore. I won't be able to enjoy the smiles I see when I chat with my teachers. I won't be able to ride my skateboard to class in the morning. I won't be able to see everyone ice skating on the frozen pond. I won't be able to eat dinner with my 73 year old landlord.
There are too many things I won't be able to do, so I guess I should focus on what I can do when I get back to Seattle.
Tonight was a fun night. I went out to dinner with a few of my classmates, specifically Tammy, Janny, Cassie, Carolyn and Sonia. We walked to a nearby restaurant and ate some great food thanks to Tammy and Janny. We chatted about all sorts of things, especially my trip to Yunnan. A few of them plan to go, so they wanted me to share my experiences with them. After dinner they gave me a little present. It was a little skateboard keychain. I was really appreciative that they gave it to me. It means that they were somewhere and saw this little keychain with a skateboard on it and mut have said to themselves, 'oh wow, Jon would really like this'. That in itself makes it even better.
After we ate dinner we all walked back to their apartments. I checked Janny and Tammy's new apartment, had a beer and chatted it up. After a few minutes I had to leave to meet Sunny. She wanted to see my pictures of Yunnan because she has been there before. I thought we would be able to check them out online, but that wasn't working out to well, so we decided to go look at the photos she took while she travelled around Yunnan and other parts of China.
After we looked through all the pictures and she scolded me for not visiting some places in Beijing she showed me where to catch a cab. I slowly walked across campus on the slippery ground to where I could catch a cab and then left. That pretty much brings me up to this point. Right now I am just uploading the more than four hundred photos I took while traveling in Yunnan. I hope you guys enjoy looking at them. I took them for you guys.
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