China Blues - July 9th

I've been in a somewhat depressing mood today. It's the first day of class, meaning exams galore and one ass kicking individual session with my teacher. I studied all of yesterday to prepare today, which I couldn't really prepare for because I can't prepare responses to questions that I don't know will come up. My teacher asked during the individual session, so how did you feel about your parents leaving you in China for the first time? In chinese, that's still a loaded question. You know to this day I just pretend they are on a longly postponed honeymoon vacation and they'll just pop in again. Then I sneezed today and my roommate said, "Ni dan pen ti, you ren hen xiang ni". I started crying. What a baby. Sui bian.

I plan to make an unprecedented trip to Hong Kong and Beijing during two of the next three weekends. I just need to see my family.