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COME ON PEOPLE POST SOMETHING!!
Sorry, I was trying to book a Concorde flight to check out my holdings in Shenzhen and they've been giving me lip. Something about the Concorde not existing anymore. I'll be sure to have them all fired.

Instead I'm starting to figure out my alternative travel plans - looks like Southern California might be the destination of choice after all. I've put it off long enough anyway.
 

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I'd recommend driving the Pacific Coast Highway from LA to San Francisco rather than just seeing SoCal but you probably don't have the time for all that.
 

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Lol dude. You have so many first world probems
To be honest, I've never felt so carefree. I don't know if I'm afraid, but I think the word is "dreading" having to leave because I wonder what's waiting for me back in NYC. I'm just so happy here and I'm always inspired... I don't want to go back to who I used to be, I really don't. I remember a few days after I arrived I talked to my friend in the US and she said, "Wow, it's like a 180!" because she could hear in my voice how happy I was.

I haven't thought about these things in a while until a few days ago. Strickland and Corinne started singing Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," and I had never heard it before. I love it when Strickland sings, and he sang the girl's part, and I sat there in the dark watching them. The lyrics hit so close to home and I felt really, really sad and I remembered who I used to be before Shanghai. My friend, during a war council, was sitting on my floor eating with me and said that now when they go partying, they go harder, and I know what they mean. Haha, I don't know, so much has been happening lately. Ever since the Banco Santander Brunch/Grand Prix, important things have happened, the Yangzhou trip was an interesting time for me to be alone to think, etc...

Anyway, we went rock climbing today and it was pretty fun. I didn't do that much though, except for one wall XD It was funny at the time because as I was going down, I turned around in the air to pose for a photo, and Strickland and Kevin were yelling at me to turn around so they can lower me, but I kept posing for silly photos and they made it even worse because I cracked up at their desperateness for me to turn around.

Then for my photography project I went to the shikumen site again by myself and did major exploring. I climbed over so many bricks, glass, and basically a ton of garbage and demolished things for my photos, and I loved it! I felt so dirty though, these rooms are so old and rotting away! XD I remembered my father telling me while we were exercising to make sure steps, don't hesitate, so when I was climbing over and going inside these (basically) ruins of the early 1900s houses, the thing in my head was, "sure step sure step sure step--STEP SURELY" XD I have some awesome photos though and I'll need to go again! It's these things that I'm going to miss, these simple days! Just getting my food at Family Mart, walking down the street to class, the trees, sitting here in this room writing, talking to my parents every day and night for so long, things like that.

Can you tell I don't want to study for my Chinese law quiz tomorrow? ::meev::

i heatd back from an association I had contacted about volunteering and I start saturday! It's a house for abandoned and maltreated cats. I dunno. I feel like I'll finally be doing something worthwile with my life
This is so great!!! ^__________^ I hope you have a great time :D
 

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@PureElegance : I don't know what other people think, but I'm going to greatly miss your live-in-China reports, so I don't want you to fly back either. :cry:

@faith : one thing I didn't understand was why join that association if you'll soon be working in Japan? :/
 

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Well it's not 100% sure that I'll be going to Japan yet. Besides, 6 months of working there is better than not working there at all, right? Every little bit helps.

Plus I can see if I like doing it and find a place in Japan if I do.
 

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Thanks, makes perfect sense now!

Japan loves cats so much you'll have no problem helping out over there.
 

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We went to karaoke on Tuesday - it was beyond random. It was run by some Chinese people in what looked like a basement leading deep into the bowels of the earth decorated, of course, in the ugliest 70's knock up style I had ever seen. The fee was a flat 25 euro regardless of how long you stayed so we stayed 6 hours.

The songs were really random too. They had all these old Japanese and Chinese singers ad then really recent sucky ones like allll the morning musume spin off bands and AKB48. And then Moon Child, but not Hyde. Annie Lenox but not Eurythmics. When they did have good bands they didn't have any of their famous songs XD

Still, good times were had. I can't wait to do Japanese karaoke in Japan though. A lot of my friends are from Algeria and China and other places with really restrictive passports so they need to get French citizenship and come visit me. Sucks how world travel is so restrictive for some nationalities...

EDT: Also they served traditional Chinese food...like sheep tongues and jellyfish salad....I just has scallops and veggies. But they only gave the chinese people with us chopsticks so I had to be all like 请给我筷子!and I did it!
 

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@PureElegance : I don't know what other people think, but I'm going to greatly miss your live-in-China reports, so I don't want you to fly back either. :cry:
Thank you ^_^ Oh believe me, I don't want to go back either! I'm so happy here. I was just talking to my friend in the US on the phone, and I told her about this moment that I had right after the Banco Santander brunch... I'm not sure exactly how to describe it, but something changed inside me. I suppose it was the extra confidence and the other things that happened so unexpectedly, but I knew the moment something in my mentality and perspective changed for the better. I felt calm about it too, even though it was a hard thing to change. I danced in my room that night to Diana Vickers, haha. I've been happy this entire time I've been here, but the change I felt that night is an added bonus! ::squee:: I haven't felt this way in so long!

You know that feeling when you're so confident about something, but then the seed of doubt gets planted and you start to slowly completely doubt yourself? ::meev:: It's funny because I can tell when it's happening. Yesterday we went to Ajisen Ramen, and I always get the same thing, braised beef noodle soup. We connect our tables, but we're separated into a group of girls at one long table and guys on the other, and I'm not sure how that happened. Some of us get our food, and I wait for mine to cool.

These girls, Dorothy and Kira, ask if this is my food. I said I'm pretty sure this is my food because I order it all the time. They keep asking me about it, they also say it might be Dorothy's, and I say I'm sure this is my food. But then I start to wonder. Is this actually my food? I thought it was; it looked like what I always ordered. Their questions died down, I started feeling unsure of myself, and I began nibbling. The beef started to look unfamiliar. The seed of doubt was planted.

Then they start asking me again if I'm sure that's beef in my soup. Is it pork, they also ask. I begin to get flustered and slightly annoyed because I was sure this was my food, but now I'm losing confidence. I sit there staring at it, wondering if it's pork, and all of a sudden Strickland, from across the long table, asks seriously, "Adela, is that your food?" and I go, "I thought so..." and he just says, "Then eat it." I was taken aback by how serious he was and I wasn't sure how to respond to that but looked around. Again he asks from across the table, "Adela, is that your food?" I say I'm pretty sure it is and he goes seriously, "Then eat your food." I get all "Okay okay!" and start eating it and the girls immediately stopped badgering me. I'm so glad he did that because knowing myself I would've sat there and kept feeling flustered.


I'm going to a Peruvian restaurant "Ceviche" tomorrow with my friend because when I went with my mom it was AMAZING. AMAZING. While we were eating lomo saltado, my mom remembered her childhood and I recalled the days in Trujillo, riding on the back of a date's motorcycle on the Buenos Aires beach, exploring Chan Chan, waking up to giant windows, eating at small restaurants, La Rosa Nautica. She couldn't believe we were in Shanghai eating amazing Peruvian food, haha. It's the best Peruvian food I've had outside of Peru by far.
 

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I got promoted and I got my own office but the person who was supposed to train me was out of town thursday and friday....so I feel like im getting paid more to do less ::meev::

I have a 6 page paper in Japanese due tomorrow...and i've only written two pages. Also, I can't seem to write anything more complex than "see spot run" in Japanese
::kisaki::
 

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Congratulations! Well done! :cool:
 

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congrats. So what's your title now?


I was right about the cat association - they needed me to vaccuum out the dodos (cat beds in French). And then to play with the cats and pet them because they were lonely. There was this one little black and white manx kitty, and when I picked him up he looked me in the eyes and then rested his head on my shoulder and started purring. Definitely one of my favorites there ::squee::
 

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And so it begins XD

As for me, went up to Boston this weekend for Miss Matilda's first birthday. I got her some animal fridge magnets and a kangaroo suit. Because, you know, Australia ::meev::
 

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I already told you I'm not bringing home any more cats - in fact, seeing all the others made me realize how happy I am with my two. That's why I chose to work there. They won't be put to sleep if I don't take them home. Besides I'm pretty sure he wasn't one of the ones up for adoption. There are about 30 but only 10 or so up for adoption
 

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Thanks for the congrats everyone :>
I'm not sure what my title is. Looking at my email signature and official company profile apparently I am an "SEO Specialist"....whatever that means lol.
The entire building is set up like a Japanese business...my office has red sliding doors so I don't think a name placard would be very functional XD It also has a skylight in the ceiling which is nice, but in the Vegas heat it gets super hot
 

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@ faith a normal day in Japan? XD

Hm I actually was supposed to have a job interview today. The language school, I applied for told me that they want to hire me because of my experience as a teacher and my qualifications.

In order to go to their job interview I cancelled another one. This morning, two hours before the interview, they told me that they do not want to hire me, simply because I am not a native speaker. ::hora::
 

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eMiNaTiC wrote:
Thanks for the congrats everyone :>
I'm not sure what my title is. Looking at my email signature and official company profile apparently I am an "SEO Specialist"....whatever that means lol.
The entire building is set up like a Japanese business...my office has red sliding doors so I don't think a name placard would be very functional XD It also has a skylight in the ceiling which is nice, but in the Vegas heat it gets super hot
What are you working with? =)
 
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