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Ok, so the other day, I got a comment that I should talk less about my school and kids and more about me.
haha.
OUTRAGEOUS!

BUT....considering that this may be a shared consensus...;P .... I'll cut back on the "O i just met another really cute smart kid who can speak english well".

So then...Please read the previous post. Cuz I do need advice before Friday (when it's due).

But other than that...
Been meaning to say, I've finally made my plans for winter vaca! haha, 1 week before departure. That's how I roll. :) Last minute plans are always the only way to go. Thailand was a success, I think, no? :)

So anyway, I'll be going to China to meet Ryaaan!! YAAAAAAAY!!!
Ryan...I know I've told you several times before, but dammit, I'm SO FREAKIN' excited to be seeing you in one week!!
My god, ok I have many many things I want to try to accomplish while there.
(I direct this to Ryan but you know, it also clues in the rest of you, what our plans may be).
So any luck with the Earthquake relief stuff? I wouldn't mind spending a day or two or few there.
Also, I was thinking...let's visit/stay at a Tibetan monestry or something...a Buddhist temple...how realistic is this? that we could visit and live and practice in a place like this for...a few days or a week?? I could totally use the zen.
And uh...Cambodia! I never had too much of an interest in Cambodia...but I saw a totally random photo the other day and now I'm obsessed with going. Possible? Interested?
-fin

:p
So yea, I'll be visiting Ryan in Beijing for 3 weeks. December 23- Jan12. Well rather, I'll be away from Japan for 3 weeks. I figure the way it'll work is that I'll have a few days to roam the city and revisit nostalgic areas around town.
I've already got a mental mantra I'm totally sticking to:
Definitely...
1. Drink AT LEAST one 24cent boba milk tea EVERY day.
2. Allow yourself to spend $100 on counterfeit movies and TV shows and not feel guilty about it. In fact, if you don't spend $100 (which is anywhere from 30-50 movies), you will be regretful 3 months from now.
3. Eat a shit load of yangrouchuanr.
4. Stop cursing so much.
(I dont know how this habit started since arriving in Japan, but I don't like it at alllll. It makes me sad. We're working on it -- me and my brain).

and uh....
dance a lot (which translates to... be absolutely silly ridiculous on the dance floor and wake up with pleasant bruises you can't recall)
swim once in Ryan's olympic sized pool.
hm hm...
be totally silly. that's important. I miss that one.
get food poisoning and visit the hospital or eat an herbal tree bark in another middle of nowhere bumble-f$%k Tibetan mountain village. --> because a China experience is not complete without me getting a massive near-death food poisoning experience.
I've got my "once a month" China quota to meet.

O um....freakin'....eat at that Hot Pot place near BeiShiDa -- RYAN! We're doing it.
We're gonna do it allll!!!

O and, a lot of overnight shady rides on cocaine-transit-3-Traingles-buses where we clutch our knives and our bodies for dear life, without a wink of shut-eye. I want one of those again too.
:)

this is gonna be soooooooooooo much fuuuuuuuuun!!!
weeee!!!

Everyone....whoever is reading this, please share with me your winter vaca plans! I'm interested!! You can send me an email. the downside of keeping a blog, is that sometimes it starts to become one-sided...you get kept up to date with my happenings, but i don't hear from you.
And I dearly really do. So....email me!! It always makes me happy.

love and ~muahs~
-j9