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| 01:42pm 14/08/2007 |
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Aerick sent me this link, it is my two favorite things!
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| 02:48am 09/06/2007 |
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I don't want to go. :(
Yes, I'll be glad to take the course and work on my language skills. Yes, it will be nice to see my friends there. Yes, I am craving some good hot pot. Yes, I will probably make a post two months from now about how I don't want to come back.
But.. I want to stay here. It's weird having three lives. None of them are complete. In Beijing or at school or at home. But the closest to being right is at home. It's the people who have known me the longest, the people who actually know things about me, the people that I'm comfortable with, the people I care most about, the people I can talk to, the people I can joke around with and the jokes from years ago are still funny, the people I trust. I don't think you all realize it though, both those who will read this and those who won't, but my friends - all of you - are so extremely important to me. I don't want to lose touch with the things that matter, and this is what matters. |
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| 12:40am 17/05/2007 |
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I'm really glad its summer even though this house isn't home. I sort of wish I was actually going to be around the whole time, but even the past few days I've driven to Emory, Radford, and South Hill.. gotta go to DC one of these days and NY to visit relatives next week or sometime. Then off again. In a way it's my last summer.. Weird. |
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| 11:02am 05/04/2007 |
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music: Our Lady Peace - Apology
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You, you're me
I'm the lock, you're the key
You're the air, the air, I breathe.
But tonight I'm choking
You are my life
You are my life
You, you're the sea
I'm the waves crashing
On the ground
The ground under your feet
I'm a liar, a thief
And I'm, I'm an apology
You are my life
You are my life
Don't go
Don't go....
The worst part is that I let myself get out of control and be vulnerable. That I don't even remember anything from about four hours of the night. All I can do is hate myself. I don't need anyone else to be angry with me, especially based on so much misunderstanding that you don't realize. I'll give you the space you want, please just give me the hope that things will be okay. I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry. |
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| 06:23pm 09/03/2007 |
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mood:  exhausted
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I'm coming home tomorrow! Spring break woo! Yeah-eah! |
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| 05:49pm 08/01/2007 |
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Ooooooooooookay! If you wanna come over tomorrow (Tuesday), chip in a few dollars and order some pizzas or something, hang out, act stupid, whatever, then yay! Have already IM'd a few people but anyone who's around in Richmond is welcome.. Maybe around 6ish? Post here or gimme a call if you need directions (I don't live in Kings Charter anymore..)! 804-380-2357 |
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| 01:30am 05/01/2007 |
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I have to get up in like 3 hours to go with my dad and brother to the airport, because they are going to Costa Rica and I won't see them until spring break probably.. shoulda gone to bed way earlier, oops.
But I had a really good day today! :)
El Fin |
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| 09:39am 20/12/2006 |
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I am home! (And located my cell phone, which is fully charged.. 804-380-2357) |
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| 02:27pm 12/12/2006 |
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Hey kids. What's up?
Since it's less than a week away, thought I'd let everyone know I'll be back in the US of A next Tuesday nightish... :) :( :/ That's what I feel about that. Hah.
My cell phone number is the same as always, assuming I can find it in my room somewhere. My house and my house phone number has changed.. I live in the middle of some trees and grass and a big vegetable garden now... x_X But I should have a super party or something so everyone can come check out the new house.
So yeah. Food! If anyone wants food, I'm there...
Back to Beijing tomorrow. Wooooo!!! (If there is no flight ticket waiting for me when I wake up tomorrow, someone is gonna 死） |
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| 02:30pm 30/10/2006 |
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I am so done with this whole going to class thing, I just want to quit now. But I can't, for another month. Just forced discussions on cultural differences that don't exist and feeling like your teacher just laughs at your Chinese all the time just isn't fun. :/ But I had a pretty good weekend, the weather was beautiful for a change!
Also, if you haven't gotten a postcard it's because:
1. It got lost in the mail and I have no idea it didn't get there
2. I don't have your address
(so if you want one, post your address here, comments are screened!) |
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| 03:16pm 18/10/2006 |
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DemonBarber86: how's China?
Amichan54: it's chinese!
DemonBarber86: is it Chinese?
DemonBarber86: hahaha
DemonBarber86: they say great minds think alike
DemonBarber86: obviously stupid ones do too
Hey, you said it, not me! |
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| 09:49am 12/10/2006 |
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I'm so tired, of everything. Literally all I have time to do is go to class, study, sometimes eat, and sleep. I've gone to bed by 11 every night since last Friday because I've been so tired and fighting some sickness. But I'm still not feeling so great. When I have time I can't even do anything with it, random hours in between my classes, and today it took more than two hours just to get my email to load - not to mention trying to get AIM or MSN to connect (and evidentally, when I think I am connected I'm not even getting my messages). I want to enjoy being in China, to talk with people and explore this huge city, not sit in my dorm room studying. I'm really trying to be positive but next week we have a midterm that covers our entire textbook - maybe 80 grammar points and 1000 new words? I'm not really sure, and this semester is going to ruin my GPA, because I took the harder road and decided to really work on my language. I just feel so much stress and so much pressure about so many things. :/ Hopefully if I work my ass off this week I can take it a bit easier when we start the second textbook and get into the city some. I love China, but I definitely miss all of you...
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes
They're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
I just know that these things
Will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world |
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| 05:13am 21/09/2006 |
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Today as I was leaving class I walked past a group of white guys. The only thing I caught from their conversation is the following:
"And you have to stab someone in the eye with a chopstick just to get some food" |
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| 05:23am 16/09/2006 |
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I'm only a teenager for like 10 more days. That's really weird...
I went to a Chinese wedding today! How cool is that!? Haha. I'm really tired though. Haven't done any homework yet either this weekend... oops. |
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| 07:12am 08/09/2006 |
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I put some pictures from the summer on facebook. The plan is to upload them to photobucket or something this weekend as well, but right now I'm soo tired of uploading photos haha. It's gotten pretty cold here already. Today was the first day I didn't have to do homework all day, because I have three days to study and do homework. Yay! We had a quiz this morning though and it was ridiculously hard, ugh. But that's okay. I'm really tired and hungry, I think everyone already went to dinner though. Oh well, I have noodles! Bwahahaha... |
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| 07:18am 06/09/2006 |
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I don't have a life anymore. Well, what's left of it consists of going to Chinese class and sitting at this desk studying Chinese. I leave the door open so that if someone walks by maybe they will talk to me and give me a break for 5 minutes. x_X
I haven't called home in over a month. I have only called home once from Jinghong for an hour and once from Kunming for 10 minutes since I left the US on July 2nd. I bought an IP card today and it's still kinda early but I might call anyway.
Blaaah.
But my professors are all really good and I will, will, definitely will, learn Chinese. |
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| 10:18am 03/09/2006 |
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Classes start tomorrow. Chinese, Chinese, and more Chinese. The oral placement test this afternoon was a disaster, I am so bad at Chinese I'm surprised they didn't just laugh at me. This is gonna ruin my GPA. I stopped writing my journal like a week ago, I just got tired. That's sad I need to start again. It's weird that I am actually at school, this doesn't feel or look like school. I feel like I don't have enough time to do everything and I still don't really know anyone well from my program. I'm exhauuuusted. I need to figure out something I can buy to decorate the room with. I already feel like I wish I was staying here for the whole year. :/ My roommate seems cool and has traveled a bit here and studied Chinese for a couple years already. I'm only going to be a teenager for like 3 more weeks. That's weird too. I need to go to sleep now I think. I'll uh.. let you guys know how classes go? |
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| 04:47am 01/09/2006 |
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I have internet on my laptop woo! I'm at my dorm now at my school, classes start Monday, today was like random here's your id and cell phone and stuff day and then we are having some gathering tonight with Chinese students from the school.
Let me tell you, it is not only totally bizarre to see this many white people all in one place, but it's *so* weird to be in Beijing and then see people I know from school in DC. I mean, like whoa. I spent 5 weeks here last year and people from AU are just not supposed to be here. It's also weird that I can move like half a mile or a mile down the road and have to completely reorient myself because there's a whole new set of restaurants and stores and stuff. Plus, the campus is freaking huge. But anyway, enough about that. My roommate won't be here til Sunday so it's lonely sitting in here by myself, I haven't slept in a room by myself since uh.. Jinghong a month ago. I feel kinda itchy I hope that's just my imagination. The room is kinda dingy but oh man there's a freaking bathtub! Not that I'm gonna use it, but to see a shower that doesn't just hit the toliet when it's on is pretty amazing.
So now that I have internet (though it's just one connection I have to share with my roommate when she gets here) I will try to upload some pictures later, but maybe not today. Yup! |
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| 12:47pm 29/08/2006 |
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mood:  content music: Johnny Cash - Redemption Song
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So hey， 你好！ I'm in Beijing yay. Been doing nothing for the past couple of days, and will do nothing today and tomorrow, and then go to move into my dorm and start orientation on Thursday. I went to Tian'anmen Square yesterday just to walk around. It's very bizarre to be here. I'm pretty sure I convinced myself that I dreamed last summer up and that it hadn't really happened. I feel like I have nothing to do because everyone is at work. I want to watch Garden State but I don't know where else to look for it. That's all! 拜拜！ |
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| 02:07pm 21/08/2006 |
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Chongqing!!! Hahahaha that's where I am. (BTW, in Chinese "q" is pronounced like "ch"). Getting on a boat tonight. I'll be in Beijing Saturday wooo. After a four night boat trip, 4 hour bus trip, and 12 hour train trip (and some waiting in between). I'm really tired and looking forward to being somewhere for longer than like 4 days!
People are going back to AU this week. :( It's going to be so sad to miss out on stuff there for the fall, but hopefully I will learn lots of Chinese. Mhm yep!
For two months I had no idea what I was doing or when the travelling would be over, but now I finally have a set plan! Well, then again it could change, like yesterday my first flight was 7 hours late and I missed my second flight and all that. But I made it here. Yay.
Tell me how you're doing!!!!! |
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