So, 3 days to go til my flight to Shanghai, and I just started making my "to do" preparation list:
1) Pack a year's worth of clothing into 2 suitcases
2) Start to consider unpacking some of the boxes I shipped home after graduating in May
3) learn how to say more than just "hello handsome man" in Chinese
yeah... good luck to me.
Also- I want to start updating this blog on a semi-regular basis, so I've been thinking of ways to do that and I came up with something that I think is pretty cool: I was out with some old high school friends the other night, and at some point in the middle of the Camden mayhem, one of them took my journal out of my bag and started writing in it. He then passed it on to another friend who also wrote me a little "good luck" poem. Then, a random girl came and sat with us outside, and after 20 minutes of talking, she asked if she too could write something to me. So, the next day, as I wondered why the hell there was a poem about egg fried rice written in my private journal, the idea came to me to start asking people to write things in my notebook so I can keep a sort of "record" of the interesting and inspiring people I meet in my life, wherever it may find them, and the things they felt like writing to me in the moment of time that I met them (be it a quote, a poem, a picture, etc). I'm going to start updating the blog with images of the things that are written, hopefully some of them will be fun and inspiring, and I'll also use that as a way to keep people posted about what I've been doing on a semi-daily basis. I've already started doing this, and I'll start posting it all on my blog soon, once my success rate has improved. (Last night, I wanted to ask the dj at the bar in Shoreditch that I was at to do it, but he was too busy entertaining the crowd wearing only a pleather apron.. so I asked a cool bartender I had been talking to and the outcome was pretty funny, but I want to accumulate a few more before I start posting them). I'm interested to see where this takes me and if I'll be able to keep this up once I'm out East...and I'll also keep writing the longer narratives when the inspiration comes my way.
So start checking in more often- I'll be posting more frequently... starting tomorrow or the day after maybe.
1) Pack a year's worth of clothing into 2 suitcases
2) Start to consider unpacking some of the boxes I shipped home after graduating in May
3) learn how to say more than just "hello handsome man" in Chinese
yeah... good luck to me.
Also- I want to start updating this blog on a semi-regular basis, so I've been thinking of ways to do that and I came up with something that I think is pretty cool: I was out with some old high school friends the other night, and at some point in the middle of the Camden mayhem, one of them took my journal out of my bag and started writing in it. He then passed it on to another friend who also wrote me a little "good luck" poem. Then, a random girl came and sat with us outside, and after 20 minutes of talking, she asked if she too could write something to me. So, the next day, as I wondered why the hell there was a poem about egg fried rice written in my private journal, the idea came to me to start asking people to write things in my notebook so I can keep a sort of "record" of the interesting and inspiring people I meet in my life, wherever it may find them, and the things they felt like writing to me in the moment of time that I met them (be it a quote, a poem, a picture, etc). I'm going to start updating the blog with images of the things that are written, hopefully some of them will be fun and inspiring, and I'll also use that as a way to keep people posted about what I've been doing on a semi-daily basis. I've already started doing this, and I'll start posting it all on my blog soon, once my success rate has improved. (Last night, I wanted to ask the dj at the bar in Shoreditch that I was at to do it, but he was too busy entertaining the crowd wearing only a pleather apron.. so I asked a cool bartender I had been talking to and the outcome was pretty funny, but I want to accumulate a few more before I start posting them). I'm interested to see where this takes me and if I'll be able to keep this up once I'm out East...and I'll also keep writing the longer narratives when the inspiration comes my way.
So start checking in more often- I'll be posting more frequently... starting tomorrow or the day after maybe.
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| My travel journal (a great gift from my sister) |
Oh, and here's some footage from the Cracki party I went to in Paris last month.
Next long post will be from Shanghai.. I hope you're all as excited for me as I am for myself!!!
I was the first one to write in that journal after you! (and ps... you stole my purple pen). But great idea!! You need to get people to write in it in Chinese and when you finally master it you can go back and read what they really wrote.
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