They've sucked me in!

So I swore that this would never happen, me getting a blog-thingy and putting my whole life on the internet. Yet after two days, I find it horribly addicting, and I can't seem to stop playing around with things that I can do with this, like change the colors of my dots. Actually, its more like I'm picking out the colors and Tab is doing all the coding, because I can code things like Tab can! (I'm getting excited about changing the dots, because I want it to be pretty and me, and not some pre-fixed template) I blame my suitemates for this, because they all have one, and peer pressure is fairly hard to resist. Espcially with these girls. Just try living here and not having anything on the internet and see how you do! Plus, its a great way to procrastinate! So I might have to keep this up, even though I'm using my trip to China as an excuse to start, but this is like a drug.

Travel buddy!

This is me and my buddy Jason, who I'm doing all my traveling with. We went to the same elementry school, and he lived right around the corner from me too. We didn't meet back up again until college, and even then it took a little while to recognize eachother. In this picture, it was our friend Tom's birthday party, and he felt the need to smear icing on my face with his face. From the looks of this, its gonna be a great trip.

I month until China!

Hey guys! I'm starting this blog as a personal request so that I can keep everyone posted about being in Hong Kong and all the awesome things that I am going to do there. It looks like its going to be an exciting time. For those of you who aren't in the know, I will be spending my spring semester at Lingnan University in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong. And I'll also take a couple weeks in the summer and travel with my friend Jason through Southern China, Thailand, and Nepal. (If there ever was anything you wanted from those places, now is the time to send me shopping lists!) I'll be there on January 12th until middle of June. Don't worry that I don't speak the language or anything, that just makes it more fun for me! Later this week I'll be having dinner with Shirley, the Lingnan exchange student, and Liz, the other SMCM student going to China. Shirley is very excited that there are going to be two Americans there, because they hardly ever get exchange students there. I've made a promise to myself that I will not be the typical "ugly American" tourist. I've even managed to get the use of chopsticks down!