Photo 1: JE 201 W/FPhoto 2: paint vs. the flashlight
Photo 3: a big pink heart
Photo 4: Love Actually is all over us :)
Photo 5: club Volume with Marky
Photo 6: my fave spot in Insadong
Photo 7: siiiiiiick
Photo 8: my much calmer KG7 saturday class
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
more goodies
Photo 1: JE 201 W/FPhoto 2: paint vs. the flashlight
Photo 3: a big pink heart
Photo 4: Love Actually is all over us :)
Photo 5: club Volume with Marky
Photo 6: my fave spot in Insadong
Photo 7: siiiiiiick
Photo 8: my much calmer KG7 saturday class
goodies
Photo 1: crazy KG7 saturdaysPhoto 2: my desk at work :)
Photo 3: The Great Wall of China
Photo 4: inside the Birds Nest...Beijing 2008
Photo 5: couldn't resist a photo with the Olympics mascots themselves PEACE!!
feels like midterm season...
I have been graduated from university for 2 years and about 6 months....it really freaks me out when I say it out loud. I still get these feelings like I'm in university like right now it's midterm season and even in Korea I'm still feeling the buzz. I think my system is permanently scarred from caffeine consumption and all nighters which would explain my inability to fall asleep before 2am despite my 8am wake up call!
Well even at Maple Bear its midterm season ie. report cards. I have many moments where I pay some respects to my former teachers and friends who are teachers or becoming them and report cards is one of them. I had no clue how time consuming and tedious they would be...I was seriously in report card hell. I don't know how teachers do it, well I guess I do now, but it I still cannot believe how much time and effort goes into a piece of paper that will eventually be thrown away and forgotten....its a very important piece of paper to us because I doubt half my kids will take them seriously, especially if they're doing really well.
Midterms also means fall and I looooove fall weather. I do not however love that overnight it became fall and I did not have time to prepare my wardrobe or even my mentality. Monday was a chilly day, actually no it was cold and my hands and feets have officially stop circulating blood. If this continues I might have to break out my winter jacket...who knew Korea was so cold and windy.
What does midterms also mean...me missing school. I still manage my life based on a school type calender where the year runs from September to April and then summer is free time, this is clearly not very realistic. When I was writing my report cards I had this flashback to the many many hours spent writing essays...I was procrastinating from my reports just like I would from essay writing, it was a scary deja vu especially when I vowed to never write one again (this might change with the possibility of grad school...).
I'm not really missing school....more the collegiate atmosphere that comes with midterms, you really feel like a student when you are studying in the library at 9am in total silence, probably the only time I was up at 9am back then :)
I'm missing a few other things like hockey season although the guys at my work and my boss keep me pretty updated. Its just not the same without my dad and brother's hockey talk and the constant discussion of the hockey pool from the boys which us girls just love and I think we actually bonded over ignoring the boys!
I miss Starbucks fall drinks believe it or not...another thing I base my season changes on, Starbucks themed drinks, how sad! They don't have caramel apple cider or pumpkin lattes or maple lattes here and its pretty upsetting. I honestly don't know what I will do if come November Christmas drinks AND cups don't show up on the menu filling me with the goodness of peppermint mochas and aggnog lattes mmmmm *tear*
Other random additions to what I miss include: my fireplace, my bed(still), a bathtub and seperated shower, recycling, my cat, driving and television although Korea's speedy downloading means I'm not missing lots, just the channel flipping!
What I'm loving right now about Korea: 1) there is nothing better then going anywhere in Seoul and being able to find street markets. I love the independent sellers, the art, the jewellery, the clothes, everything is just amazing and I've actually started leaving my wallet at home. 2) Even though I have started forget my obvious minority status there are a few people, mostly in the coffee shops that I frequent, who give me special treatment and get so excited to speak to me in english when all I want is to attempt Korean with them even in Hongdae which is filled with foreingers like me :) 3) I love how cuter everything is in Korea...there is no way to decribe this but Korea is just filled with flowers and hearts and cute anime girls with big blue eyes and ceramic animals and Mickey Mouse lol its so easy to feel like you're about 8 year old again 4) That there's so much to do and not enough time to do it all. My time off is limited so I'm having to plan everything in advance which is annoying but exciting too because I always have something to look forward to. No wonder people stay up all night out on the town...after hitting up 5 bars, a Norebong, a games room and places to eat in between, there just aren't enough hours in the day!
I miss home ofcourse and that won't change...its aches me to be missing things even if its the same old, I like the same old but I also like it here and I'm happy. I guess I can never have the balance, it'll always be back and forth but I love loving where I am and also knowing I have so much to go home to :)
Time for bed...sleeping beauty needs her rest if she's going to face her kiddies tomorrow and plan and finish report cards and and and...it never ends.
Until next time,
janer xo
Well even at Maple Bear its midterm season ie. report cards. I have many moments where I pay some respects to my former teachers and friends who are teachers or becoming them and report cards is one of them. I had no clue how time consuming and tedious they would be...I was seriously in report card hell. I don't know how teachers do it, well I guess I do now, but it I still cannot believe how much time and effort goes into a piece of paper that will eventually be thrown away and forgotten....its a very important piece of paper to us because I doubt half my kids will take them seriously, especially if they're doing really well.
Midterms also means fall and I looooove fall weather. I do not however love that overnight it became fall and I did not have time to prepare my wardrobe or even my mentality. Monday was a chilly day, actually no it was cold and my hands and feets have officially stop circulating blood. If this continues I might have to break out my winter jacket...who knew Korea was so cold and windy.
What does midterms also mean...me missing school. I still manage my life based on a school type calender where the year runs from September to April and then summer is free time, this is clearly not very realistic. When I was writing my report cards I had this flashback to the many many hours spent writing essays...I was procrastinating from my reports just like I would from essay writing, it was a scary deja vu especially when I vowed to never write one again (this might change with the possibility of grad school...).
I'm not really missing school....more the collegiate atmosphere that comes with midterms, you really feel like a student when you are studying in the library at 9am in total silence, probably the only time I was up at 9am back then :)
I'm missing a few other things like hockey season although the guys at my work and my boss keep me pretty updated. Its just not the same without my dad and brother's hockey talk and the constant discussion of the hockey pool from the boys which us girls just love and I think we actually bonded over ignoring the boys!
I miss Starbucks fall drinks believe it or not...another thing I base my season changes on, Starbucks themed drinks, how sad! They don't have caramel apple cider or pumpkin lattes or maple lattes here and its pretty upsetting. I honestly don't know what I will do if come November Christmas drinks AND cups don't show up on the menu filling me with the goodness of peppermint mochas and aggnog lattes mmmmm *tear*
Other random additions to what I miss include: my fireplace, my bed(still), a bathtub and seperated shower, recycling, my cat, driving and television although Korea's speedy downloading means I'm not missing lots, just the channel flipping!
What I'm loving right now about Korea: 1) there is nothing better then going anywhere in Seoul and being able to find street markets. I love the independent sellers, the art, the jewellery, the clothes, everything is just amazing and I've actually started leaving my wallet at home. 2) Even though I have started forget my obvious minority status there are a few people, mostly in the coffee shops that I frequent, who give me special treatment and get so excited to speak to me in english when all I want is to attempt Korean with them even in Hongdae which is filled with foreingers like me :) 3) I love how cuter everything is in Korea...there is no way to decribe this but Korea is just filled with flowers and hearts and cute anime girls with big blue eyes and ceramic animals and Mickey Mouse lol its so easy to feel like you're about 8 year old again 4) That there's so much to do and not enough time to do it all. My time off is limited so I'm having to plan everything in advance which is annoying but exciting too because I always have something to look forward to. No wonder people stay up all night out on the town...after hitting up 5 bars, a Norebong, a games room and places to eat in between, there just aren't enough hours in the day!
I miss home ofcourse and that won't change...its aches me to be missing things even if its the same old, I like the same old but I also like it here and I'm happy. I guess I can never have the balance, it'll always be back and forth but I love loving where I am and also knowing I have so much to go home to :)
Time for bed...sleeping beauty needs her rest if she's going to face her kiddies tomorrow and plan and finish report cards and and and...it never ends.
Until next time,
janer xo
Monday, October 12, 2009
In China we're famous
Last weekend was Korean Thanksgiving ie. Chuseok and in a very last minute decision I decided to join my friend Rexy in a 4 day trip to Beijing, China...and I'm so so sooooo happy that I did.
Beijing is somewhere that I always imagined going so the fact that 5 weeks into my move to Seoul I actually went still blows my mind even a week after my return. I guess its still weird to think about being only an hour and a half plane ride away from China and thinking about all the new countries I have access too so cheaply...I can see myself getting far to used to this life!
I wasn't the only one taking off the China for the weekend, infact there were 4 other people from my school heading there for the weekend and some were actually on our plane. Rexy is already a veteran of traveling Asia after being here for 10 months so she took care of me, I couldn't have done it on my own :) Thanks Rex!
Day 1: After a very very early wake up call on friday October 2nd and about a 40 minute bus ride we arrived at the airport around 6am. Despite Chuseok being a big travel weekend for Koreans the airport was dead quiet and luckily there were no lines YAY. Even our waiting area for boarding was abondoned with only us but soon filled up as our flight time got closer. Melissa, Angela and Shannon all showed up and we prepared ourselves for what was soon to be an unforgettable weekend. After landing in Beijing and checking into our Caribbean resort style hotel Rexy and I took off to find the Olympic Park. It took us awhile to figure out what all the fuss in Beijing was about...on our journey to Beijing station we felt like we were in the middle of some big event and were totally clueless. We soon realized that not only was it the Full Moon festival BUT it was also the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China and since 60 is a lucky number in China it was a massive celebration. It was amazing to be there on the same weekend as thousands of other visitors BUT I will admit that I felt a little anxious and claustrophobic from the crowds, I've never seen so many people! Rexy and I noticed how clear the sky is in Beijing and were surprised but never thought anything of it until we were informed of the reason why. Most people know that the air in Beijing is very smoggy and polluted, so why wasn't it that weekend? Well I will tell you. Over the Olympic Games and then again during the celebrations they shoot up dry ice into the atmosphere to clear it out. They are able to make it rain with the dry ice which is crazy to think that the weather can be controlled...don't mess with mother nature! But if its supposed to rain and there's a big event, the dry ice makes it rain earlier and after the rainfall the air is cleared...unreal!! Anyways...our day at the Olympic park was amazing and sitting in the Water Cube and the Birds Nest so soon after the Olympics was a very cool experience for both Rexy and I. The stadiums were just insanely huge and really made you feel small. The park also celebrated their 1 year anniversary very recently and had a photo display set up which was very powerful and moving to walk around...made you wish you were there! It was our time wandering around Olympic Park that we realized our fame in China, something that's missing in Seoul. Numerous strangers were asking us to be in their photos and stand with their children in photos, it was all very odd. We were also the subjects of many sneaky photographs where I have no doubt that we were starring in the background of many awkward poses. It was hilarious and all we could think was..."wtf do you want MY photo for when you don't even know me?" something I'll never understand! That night we joined Shannon, Angela and Melissa at an acrobat show which was just out of control...the things these performers were doing not only made my heart race but gave me actual stress and Rexy and I had many hand holding and breath holding moments!
Day 2: Saturday was our first day as part of a tour group and it was going to be a busy one with 4 major stops to make. Our tour guide for the day Jennifer was so sweet and so funny although she didn't even know it! Our first stop was the Forbidden City, we started at the North entrance and planned to finish in Tienanmen square. It took ages to walk through, I didn't really realize how large the grounds were and how much there was to see although there were many points where I forgot if we were seeing new buildings of not since alot of it looked the same. The history of the City was the best part of the 3 hour walk and our guide knew it all, thank goodness for her! Like I said we planned on walking right into the square but it was closed, why? Well apparently there were too many people in the square and coming into the City from the South entrance that they had to close the exit SO we had to go around and save the square for later. Our next stop was the Tempe of Heaven which was a very quick visit but I'm so glad we went. The temple was beautiful and again the history was so intriguing! Our thurd stop of the day was the Summer Palace which is a completely man made space but geez did those men ever do a fabulous job! The lake, the mountain, everything was artificial, hard to believe because it was so perfect but I guess it would make sense. Looking at the lake you could really picture what it must have been like all those hundreds of years ago during the royal dynasty's. We took a dragon boat across the lake to the Palace side and our first sight was a fully marble boat sitting in the water. It was there so that the emporer and his mistress the "Dragon Lady" would feel like they were on vacation but in class, good idea! Then we walked a ways down the "Longest coloured corridor in the world" which had over 1 million different paintings covering its insides...so incredible! The sun was going down and we had to book it to Tienanmen as soon as we could and did we ever. It was just getting dark and again we were surrounded by massive crowds of people and not really sure why. Reaching the square we kind of figured it out...there was a parade! Well actually the floats from the parade that day were all in the square for people to see and there was music and lights and a whole lotta people everywhere! I think it was this moment in Tienanmen square that I really felt small for the first time!! There were police and military everywhere...it was just chaos. To top off this day it happened to be Rexy's 26th birthday so we celebrated by going for a Peking Duck dinner with the other girls. I ofcourse did not eat the duck but had all the other goodies and mmm was it ever delicious although the duck wasn't much liked by anyone anyways. Afterwards we went for fancy schmancy drinks at a nearby hotel which was beyond cool and classy :) Longest day ever, followed by a long but fun night and a very short sleep...next stop, Great Wall of China.
Day 3: I knew from the minute I woke up that this would be my favorite day of the whole trip, and I was right. Again another early morning but I didn't care because today I would be walking the infamous Great Wall of China and that's all that mattered. Before our Great Wall adventure we stopped at Mings Tomb for a quick gander but with the crowds we had already experienced we knew that the GW would be packed and we were right. Driving up and getting our first glimpse of the wall in the mountains was a special moment and I was so glad that Rexy was the one I got to share it with. I felt butterflies like I was soon going to be doing one of the coolest things I'll ever do. We took a gondola up to the wall and then embarked on a very crowded first few steps. There was alot of congestion on the first part of the wall but after passing one of the main towers it thinned out but the walk also got alot harder. I have no idea how they did it back then...the wall is built in the moutain and therefor very up and down, up and down! If we weren't walking up or down stairs, it was steep slopes that we were sliding down or climbing up. It was exhausting but absolutely worth it for the experience, the view and the moment of feeling on top fo the world! Pictures don't even do it justice, you have to see it to believe it and I still don't really believe I was there, it just seems to surreal to me! I had a minor panic attack when going down our last big set of stairs...not only were there alot of people but they were high and steep! The thought of slipping and creating a domino effect of people falling was my biggest fear. Good thing they have railings, I held on for dear life lol. After the wall we were exhausted and just ready for home but our fun didn't end there, next stop was Silk Street market. There are no words to describe this place, its huge, its packed with shoppers and sellers and its loud! I was actually scared walking through at first because EVERYONE is talking to you wanting you to buy something but soon Rex and I got right into it and started having fun with the whole thing. Surprisingly enough we ran into the girls there during our shopping escapades and shared our purchasing stories and grabbed some very delicious pizza afterwards. The market was closing but Rexy and I were making a return the following day to spend the rest of our money...
Day 4: Our last day we got up early, packed and got ready for our flight home but not before we did some last minute things. This was our last day in Beijing and although we had seen everything we wanted to, there was still more. Right at 9am we made it to the Lama Temple where one of the biggest buddha's in China stood. We just so happened to be there and a big prayer day and had no idea what we were doing, typical foreigners! Walking to the temple it said to bring incense to the temple...both Rexy and I were clueless about what to do with it so we decided not to look even more clueless and didn't buy any. Well arriving at the temple we realized that buddhists coming to pray at the temple use the incense(3 for each buddha) to pray. They light it and they pray with it all throughout the temple. It was quite a sight to see people of all ages there and giving thanks...especially with it being our Korean "Thanksgiving". There were many smaller buddha's before we reached the big mama which was breathtaking and lifesize...it was a quick stop for us there but necessary to experience a buddhist temple in China. Our last errand for the day was heading back to Silk Street to pick up a few more things...all together our shopping escapades meant us bringing home an extra backpack(for me), jeans, uggs, purses, souvenirs, jewellery and many intense tales of shopping in China markets. Finally it was time to leave and so we took off to the airport with ALL of our unnecessary stuff and once again were joined by the girls on our plane to say goodbye to Beijing for now...who knows if we'll ever be back but never say never...
I feel very lucky to be here and traveling to Beijing made me realize that. I would never have dreamt a year ago that I would be here let alone be traveling to other place in Asia over a long weekend. Walking the Great Wall of China was a huge check mark off my Places to See and it makes me so excited to know that its not over and that there are many more adventures to come....and they better come soon cause boy do I have the travel bug :)
All my love to everyone at home....wishing you were here with me or me with you!!
jane xo
Beijing is somewhere that I always imagined going so the fact that 5 weeks into my move to Seoul I actually went still blows my mind even a week after my return. I guess its still weird to think about being only an hour and a half plane ride away from China and thinking about all the new countries I have access too so cheaply...I can see myself getting far to used to this life!
I wasn't the only one taking off the China for the weekend, infact there were 4 other people from my school heading there for the weekend and some were actually on our plane. Rexy is already a veteran of traveling Asia after being here for 10 months so she took care of me, I couldn't have done it on my own :) Thanks Rex!
Day 1: After a very very early wake up call on friday October 2nd and about a 40 minute bus ride we arrived at the airport around 6am. Despite Chuseok being a big travel weekend for Koreans the airport was dead quiet and luckily there were no lines YAY. Even our waiting area for boarding was abondoned with only us but soon filled up as our flight time got closer. Melissa, Angela and Shannon all showed up and we prepared ourselves for what was soon to be an unforgettable weekend. After landing in Beijing and checking into our Caribbean resort style hotel Rexy and I took off to find the Olympic Park. It took us awhile to figure out what all the fuss in Beijing was about...on our journey to Beijing station we felt like we were in the middle of some big event and were totally clueless. We soon realized that not only was it the Full Moon festival BUT it was also the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China and since 60 is a lucky number in China it was a massive celebration. It was amazing to be there on the same weekend as thousands of other visitors BUT I will admit that I felt a little anxious and claustrophobic from the crowds, I've never seen so many people! Rexy and I noticed how clear the sky is in Beijing and were surprised but never thought anything of it until we were informed of the reason why. Most people know that the air in Beijing is very smoggy and polluted, so why wasn't it that weekend? Well I will tell you. Over the Olympic Games and then again during the celebrations they shoot up dry ice into the atmosphere to clear it out. They are able to make it rain with the dry ice which is crazy to think that the weather can be controlled...don't mess with mother nature! But if its supposed to rain and there's a big event, the dry ice makes it rain earlier and after the rainfall the air is cleared...unreal!! Anyways...our day at the Olympic park was amazing and sitting in the Water Cube and the Birds Nest so soon after the Olympics was a very cool experience for both Rexy and I. The stadiums were just insanely huge and really made you feel small. The park also celebrated their 1 year anniversary very recently and had a photo display set up which was very powerful and moving to walk around...made you wish you were there! It was our time wandering around Olympic Park that we realized our fame in China, something that's missing in Seoul. Numerous strangers were asking us to be in their photos and stand with their children in photos, it was all very odd. We were also the subjects of many sneaky photographs where I have no doubt that we were starring in the background of many awkward poses. It was hilarious and all we could think was..."wtf do you want MY photo for when you don't even know me?" something I'll never understand! That night we joined Shannon, Angela and Melissa at an acrobat show which was just out of control...the things these performers were doing not only made my heart race but gave me actual stress and Rexy and I had many hand holding and breath holding moments!
Day 2: Saturday was our first day as part of a tour group and it was going to be a busy one with 4 major stops to make. Our tour guide for the day Jennifer was so sweet and so funny although she didn't even know it! Our first stop was the Forbidden City, we started at the North entrance and planned to finish in Tienanmen square. It took ages to walk through, I didn't really realize how large the grounds were and how much there was to see although there were many points where I forgot if we were seeing new buildings of not since alot of it looked the same. The history of the City was the best part of the 3 hour walk and our guide knew it all, thank goodness for her! Like I said we planned on walking right into the square but it was closed, why? Well apparently there were too many people in the square and coming into the City from the South entrance that they had to close the exit SO we had to go around and save the square for later. Our next stop was the Tempe of Heaven which was a very quick visit but I'm so glad we went. The temple was beautiful and again the history was so intriguing! Our thurd stop of the day was the Summer Palace which is a completely man made space but geez did those men ever do a fabulous job! The lake, the mountain, everything was artificial, hard to believe because it was so perfect but I guess it would make sense. Looking at the lake you could really picture what it must have been like all those hundreds of years ago during the royal dynasty's. We took a dragon boat across the lake to the Palace side and our first sight was a fully marble boat sitting in the water. It was there so that the emporer and his mistress the "Dragon Lady" would feel like they were on vacation but in class, good idea! Then we walked a ways down the "Longest coloured corridor in the world" which had over 1 million different paintings covering its insides...so incredible! The sun was going down and we had to book it to Tienanmen as soon as we could and did we ever. It was just getting dark and again we were surrounded by massive crowds of people and not really sure why. Reaching the square we kind of figured it out...there was a parade! Well actually the floats from the parade that day were all in the square for people to see and there was music and lights and a whole lotta people everywhere! I think it was this moment in Tienanmen square that I really felt small for the first time!! There were police and military everywhere...it was just chaos. To top off this day it happened to be Rexy's 26th birthday so we celebrated by going for a Peking Duck dinner with the other girls. I ofcourse did not eat the duck but had all the other goodies and mmm was it ever delicious although the duck wasn't much liked by anyone anyways. Afterwards we went for fancy schmancy drinks at a nearby hotel which was beyond cool and classy :) Longest day ever, followed by a long but fun night and a very short sleep...next stop, Great Wall of China.
Day 3: I knew from the minute I woke up that this would be my favorite day of the whole trip, and I was right. Again another early morning but I didn't care because today I would be walking the infamous Great Wall of China and that's all that mattered. Before our Great Wall adventure we stopped at Mings Tomb for a quick gander but with the crowds we had already experienced we knew that the GW would be packed and we were right. Driving up and getting our first glimpse of the wall in the mountains was a special moment and I was so glad that Rexy was the one I got to share it with. I felt butterflies like I was soon going to be doing one of the coolest things I'll ever do. We took a gondola up to the wall and then embarked on a very crowded first few steps. There was alot of congestion on the first part of the wall but after passing one of the main towers it thinned out but the walk also got alot harder. I have no idea how they did it back then...the wall is built in the moutain and therefor very up and down, up and down! If we weren't walking up or down stairs, it was steep slopes that we were sliding down or climbing up. It was exhausting but absolutely worth it for the experience, the view and the moment of feeling on top fo the world! Pictures don't even do it justice, you have to see it to believe it and I still don't really believe I was there, it just seems to surreal to me! I had a minor panic attack when going down our last big set of stairs...not only were there alot of people but they were high and steep! The thought of slipping and creating a domino effect of people falling was my biggest fear. Good thing they have railings, I held on for dear life lol. After the wall we were exhausted and just ready for home but our fun didn't end there, next stop was Silk Street market. There are no words to describe this place, its huge, its packed with shoppers and sellers and its loud! I was actually scared walking through at first because EVERYONE is talking to you wanting you to buy something but soon Rex and I got right into it and started having fun with the whole thing. Surprisingly enough we ran into the girls there during our shopping escapades and shared our purchasing stories and grabbed some very delicious pizza afterwards. The market was closing but Rexy and I were making a return the following day to spend the rest of our money...
Day 4: Our last day we got up early, packed and got ready for our flight home but not before we did some last minute things. This was our last day in Beijing and although we had seen everything we wanted to, there was still more. Right at 9am we made it to the Lama Temple where one of the biggest buddha's in China stood. We just so happened to be there and a big prayer day and had no idea what we were doing, typical foreigners! Walking to the temple it said to bring incense to the temple...both Rexy and I were clueless about what to do with it so we decided not to look even more clueless and didn't buy any. Well arriving at the temple we realized that buddhists coming to pray at the temple use the incense(3 for each buddha) to pray. They light it and they pray with it all throughout the temple. It was quite a sight to see people of all ages there and giving thanks...especially with it being our Korean "Thanksgiving". There were many smaller buddha's before we reached the big mama which was breathtaking and lifesize...it was a quick stop for us there but necessary to experience a buddhist temple in China. Our last errand for the day was heading back to Silk Street to pick up a few more things...all together our shopping escapades meant us bringing home an extra backpack(for me), jeans, uggs, purses, souvenirs, jewellery and many intense tales of shopping in China markets. Finally it was time to leave and so we took off to the airport with ALL of our unnecessary stuff and once again were joined by the girls on our plane to say goodbye to Beijing for now...who knows if we'll ever be back but never say never...
I feel very lucky to be here and traveling to Beijing made me realize that. I would never have dreamt a year ago that I would be here let alone be traveling to other place in Asia over a long weekend. Walking the Great Wall of China was a huge check mark off my Places to See and it makes me so excited to know that its not over and that there are many more adventures to come....and they better come soon cause boy do I have the travel bug :)
All my love to everyone at home....wishing you were here with me or me with you!!
jane xo
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