Spent a week in the New York countryside hanging with friends from college. Went outside in the beautiful weather, sat on thick carpet of moss under birch woods, found huge mushrooms, bathed feet in a lake. Had ridiculously deep conversations with every single friend there, now know much more about all of them (my friends are the coolest, ( Read more... )

Like Shel said, we're leaving/ on a jet plane/ (though we know when we'll be back again), which means I may attempt to send occasional China update emails to anyone interested. If no one cares to say if they're interested, I may email you ANYWAY unless you say you DON'T WANT TO KNOW! So you'd best comment if you either particularly DO or DON'T ( Read more... )