18 July 2009

The End Is Nigh






Hi All,

Finally I have access to this site after a long absence. I have posted some photos from the last couple of months to catch you all up. Elephant bathing in Nepal and trekking to see Everest, dress up on the North Korea border, a day in Ying Kou with my friend Angela and the M party! I am still in China for the moment, but leaving very soon. I seem to have been really busy with packing up and finalising things. I have been trying to get around and see the last little bits of Shenyang and spend time with friends who I may or may not cross paths with again. Work has been keeping me busy with summer classes on top of my usual schedule. The weather has been unusually humid and rainy, which is a little depressing when you come from such a sunny city as Perth. And speaking of my hometown, I will be back there in the last week of August for an extended visit. The tone of this post may be bordering on melancholy, but it's only because I have been reflecting on my time in China and I think it has somehow penetrated my heart. I will miss this place, the good, the bad and the ugly. To have stayed here for two and a half years is just incomprehensible to me, I have learned so much and experienced so many amazing things. Thanks go to all the new friends I have made and all my old friends who have supported me throughout this odyssey.