Tuesday, January 1
Dream a Little Dream
It is now t-minus seven days until I catch my first flight out of the country. My emotions have been vacillating between excitement and disbelief; I can't quite wrap my mind around the fact that I will be half way around the globe in just one week. I keep trying to imagine what Taiwan will be like, but I honestly have no idea what it is going to be like until I get there, and I know my imagination won't do the country justice. I remember back when I first found out that I was going to go on this adventure, I had several vivid dreams about my trip. All of them, of course, were utterly inaccurate, as in my dreams Taiwan looked exactly like my small home town in Texas. In my dreams I would spout long Chinese sentences even though I had yet to begin learning the language at that time. Now, that I have actually started learning the language I struggle to remember individual words while I am awake. More and more, I find myself wishing that life was like The Matrix and I could just download the Mandarin dialect into my brain. Then again, if life was like The Matrix, PETA would probably join forces with the machines in protest to the amount of animals it must have taken to outfit the entire rebellion in those leather dusters. But, I digress. Mandarin has been a surprising language to learn, both in its challenges and its simplicities. I hope that once I am immersed in the language I will start to absorb some of it. This experience promises to be one of great opportunity, and I can't wait to finally find out what it is like. Until next time, adventurers.
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Will be interestd to hear all about your trip. JC
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to keeping up with your adventure. JC
DeleteHearing your thoughts about this adventure will be so fun!
ReplyDeleteI hope you will write to us as you are flying over the ocean.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to hear from you again! BR
Unfortunately, American Airlines doesn't have wi-fi on the plane, so I will be unable to post during the flight. But I do have plans to post during one of my layovers.
DeleteIt is now T - 1 day. I imagine everything is packed and in order. Will you sleep tonight? I won't. JC
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