The Departure

Tomorrow I embark on my world adventure. I’ve packed fairly cute and comfortable clothes, received further vaccinations (no Typhoid, yay!), and equipped myself with a decent selection of books. I’m slightly anxious about spending so much time away from home and living out of a suitcase—and with only my family—for a month and a half. My Asia leg (not to be confused with “Asian leg” which is both of them) includes family time in Taiwan, reconnecting with my ancestral roots in China, sightseeing in Hong Kong, and sitting on my college-graduate ass in Hawaii. I’ll be back in the States for a brief blip before jetting off to Europe. You can keep track of me through this blog, although emails about your lives (in all their juicy-detail glory) will certainly be devoured. I hope you’ll find this blog to be an enthralling method for procrastination, since I will do my best to record embarrassing stories about my family and myself.

What will it be like to make seeing the world and exploring new places the focus of my life for a few months? What will I learn about myself throughout it all? How many souvenirs can I possibly pack into my suitcase? And can I really handle 30 hours of transit with my mom and grandma? … three generations is kind of intense.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if I thoroughly enjoyed living out of a suitcase and spending every moment with my family, hated all the books that were recommended to me, felt no emotion at returning to the motherland, and then died of Typhoid? Well, keep your fingers crossed.

Until I write from ASIA!,

Lizzy