Wow! I've officially lived in China for one month today. This is a little ridiculous (my new favorite adjective), but I feel good today. I thought two days into this trip that I'd have to hightail it home, but it's been a full month now, and while I'm still battling numerous stomach bugs and insect-bugs, I no longer feel that intense compulsion to get the heck out of here. Also, despite how slow time seems to go while experiencing it, I am a little shocked that it's already been a full month -- I guess time flies, and I know these last two weeks will fly by even faster than I'm expecting. (With or without net.)
This trip has been a definite test of character, to be sure. It's stripped me down to my very basics, it's taken away all the vestiges of power that I meekly claim in my home country, it's made me try to rebuild myself from the ground up. These aren't the most comfortable of things, to be frank, but I think I'm learning more than I let on -- even if all it seems I've learned from day to day is how to ask for food and how to not fear crazy guys in rickshaws and motorbikes while peddling my (already falling apart) bicycle to the south campus.
Mosquito bites turn into bruises if they're nasty enough. This is another lesson I've unfortunately learned. I look like I was the victim of some violent right-leg-offender's most recent kick attack, but really, it's just those damn mosquitoes leaving their lasting mark.
There's so much I want to write about (even though a lot of it may, admittedly, be things many people have expressed great lacks of desire to read about), but it'll have to wait for later, since I am hungry and need to find myself some food.
Take care, and I'll be around in a while.
2 comments:
A month certainly feels like forever in a place you're not familiar with, but you've pulled through it and now you only have a little more time to pull through. :D
I miss you and I hope we can hang out some time in the summer. We may have our differences and we may not have seen eye to eye a lot of the time over the last year, but I really do care a lot about you. We are sistah.
i can't believe you've been there a month! it doesn't seem like that long to me, for some reason. probably because i'm not there. :<
boo @ mosquitoes. ;-;
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