Future/China Stuff

So... plane tickets are finalized. We are leaving from New York City on Friday, April 30th at 4:35 in the afternoon. Arriving in Shanghai on Saturday, May 1st, at 7:30 at night. And yes, this is a thirteen hour flight. Tickets were originally $700. This has now escalated to almost $1100. But this is preferable to losing them entirely, so... whatever. I still hold the belief that I am going to die during this flight. That is thirteen hours of sitting in one place. I don't even stay still for one hour. Part of this is just me being antsy, but when it comes to hour after hour after hour... my body begins to physically protest. So... fucking yay. I think this was the right choice, though, finding a direct flight. Because otherwise... like Jason and Minh did on their way here... it'd be upwards of a thirty hour experience, changing planes and airports and countries and so on. And it would still involve a massively long flight. Six or seven hours on a plane is long enough to kick my ass just as well, and this is not a guess, this I know from experience. And then on top of that there'd be hours of waiting in airports, too. So I still think the direct flight was the best choice.

And we're going to stay in Shanghai for one week, and already have a hotel booked (as of, um, yesterday) and then the rest of the original plane tickets will take us to Beijing, and, still, Jason has friends in Beijing we're supposed to hook up with, and since we'll be there in May (not September/October) it might be possible for either him or Minh (or both of them) to meet us there. Which would be awesome. And by June we should be in Wuhan/Tonghen, but nothing is concrete there yet. Still hoping to go to Hanoi. Still no solid plans about that either. Which is fine.

( School stuff )

HEY GUYS, IM GOING TO CHINA SOON.

Also, I think I can count this as my first normal social interaction with someone from school. I can't count Cheryl cause she's someone I already knew. So... that counts for something, right?