| | Yesterday was my "little" brother's birthday (or rather "today" as I still haven't gone to bed). My "little" brother is 23 yrs old now. Wow. Time flies.
Anyone who has talked to me in the past 3 days knows that I have been having some insane craziness going on here in China. I had to dodge through the insanity at the train station to change my ticket to leave a day earlier. I finally finished and sent out two graduate school applications. I mailed a bunch of New Years cards. I bought New Years presents. I cleaned my home. I stayed up till 3am watching my favorite guy, Barack Obama, get sworn in as the President of the United States. I had dinner with a couple of Germans. And now it's 4:18am and I'm still awake. "Why?" you might ask.
Well I knew that my day today was going to be completely insane because of all the things I had to get done in a short amount of time, but I was bound and determined to see all of Obama's speech and by the time the Inauguration was over I was hooked on the live coverage on CNN. Good luck pulling yourself away from that once it starts. So I had about 5 hours of sleep last night. I had my crazy day of crazy errand-running. And finally decided to stay up all night packing and doing stuff around my apartment because I was afraid if I went to sleep I would just sleep right through my alarm and miss my trains. You see, I have to leave my apartment at 5am today in order to make it into the city to catch my train to Shanghai at 7:40am to make it there in time to meet my ex-student and fab Chinese friend Sarah and catch our train at 11:30am to go to stay with her family for the Spring Festival. Her family invited me to stay with them and I said yes because Spring Festival with a real family is usually fun. At the very least I know I'll be eating better food than the rest of you this week. Haha!
So in a half hour I'm locking up the apartment and beginning my long journey to Changsha (长沙). I am not sure if I'll get to post anything while I'm there but I will try if I get the opportunity. The train from Shanghai South Railway Station (mom and dad'll remember that place since they were there) to Zhuzhou (a city near Changsha where we'll get off the train) should take from 11:30am to about 10:30am the next day, according to Sarah. Yea, an overnight train, which will be something new for me since usually I fly because the train stations are absolutely INSANE during the Spring Festival.
Anyway, my journey begins soon. And now I must attend to a few last minute details before I shoulder my pack and ride off.
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| | Posted 1/22/2009 4:27 AM - 16 Views - 0 eProps - 1 Comment
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