Packing Up and Heading Home

As everything is wrapping up quickly, there's still been several fun moments amidst the chaos of preparing to come back to America. Last week as Anna and I headed home from our new campus for one last visit, I looked down the aisle of the bus we were riding to see that a woman had brought a live duck onto the bus, surely her family's dinner for that night. Every big bump we hit (and boy are there lots of em) the duck quacked, and I laughed. Only in East Asia. Then later that week, after we finished up watching Season 5 of 24 with all our friends, Beth and I decided to do a little tree climbing in our apartment complex courtyard. It was pretty late, maybe 11ish, and I had on fairly dark clothes, so my spot in the fig tree over the pathway was ideal for a little scary-scare of some unsuspecting passersby. I didn't know if saying "Boogie Woogie" was appropriate, so I just settled for a quick and loud "Ni Hao!" which simply means: Hello! Right when a man passed under me, I leaned down a little and said this...and his reaction made me laugh so hard I almost fell right out of the tree! Touche, but you're never too old to climb a tree. Now several friends have already headed back to the States and I'm sitting here pretty much waiting to leave, as all my friends from school have headed back to their hometowns for the summer. So friends, it's been interesting, without a doubt funny, and completely and totally unforgettable. If you have a chance to make it to this side of the world sometime, qing lai (please come!) Thanks to my faithful readers...sorry the updates tapered off over the year!