I'm going to China!
to study abroad this summer for three weeks. The program is going to study news media and advertising and how it works with a government censored news agency such as Xinhua and how they dispense information or something. The trip is also going to include the climb to the Great Wall of China. Trip isn't all that expensive in my opinion but my dad felt it was but agreed it would be a good opportunity for me to see and learn. Total cost is 2,700 including everything such as airfare, hotel (we're staying at People's University or Tsinghua ... can't remember). But if I can find cheaper airfare then the costs would be reduced. Program starts late july and ends middle august and there might be an opportunity for me to extend my stay in China if it works out that I can work at China Daily as an intern. My dad is concerned about the costs because I don't have a lot of money left in my education funds to use toward the trip. Well I'd have enough money leftover so I could possibly stay another year depending on how much tuition keeps freaking increasing. If it goes up to 2K a semester I'm not going to be able to afford staying in school much longer. Scholarships can only go so far in covering my expenses but I'm just going to be optimistic and try super super hard not to spend anything so I can save every dime for this trip. I'd like to save so I can have spending money to buy all my wonderful friends gifts or something small. Now I realized I have so many things to do to prepare ... shots, passport application, looking for airfare. I'm really really thrilled I'm going. My dad was reluctant to let me go because it was so expensive but when I mentioned I'd chip in half the costs, he changed his mind. Oh well. I still have money saved from my summer job at the AP to use for this trip ... it won't be so bad.
And there's officially less than a day before the Strokes show in SF. I can't sit still sometimes because I get excited all of a sudden and want to jump up and down that I get to go. Anyways, I really must try and sleep earlier. I've been sleeping really late around 3 or 4ish to finish stuff and I'm still not done.
And there's officially less than a day before the Strokes show in SF. I can't sit still sometimes because I get excited all of a sudden and want to jump up and down that I get to go. Anyways, I really must try and sleep earlier. I've been sleeping really late around 3 or 4ish to finish stuff and I'm still not done.