I'm currently reading a collection of essays about China, 'Coming Home Crazy' by Bill Holm. This Minnesota native touches on just about every aspect of living in China as a foreigner, and I find myself laughing along as I read his stories that mirror a lot of the experiences I've had. He taught in Xi'an but did take a short trip to my area of residence, Chongqing, and described the city as "a humid, coal-burning industrial town at the bottom of a sinkhole surrounded by steep mountains. Photographs of it are always bathed in a fuzzy haze, giving it a romantic, ancient look. There is little romance, however, in chemical analysis of the haze." So as glamorous as that sounds, I'm looking forward to getting away for a few weeks.
My itinerary includes 10 days in Thailand, a week in India, and 10 days in Malaysia and Singapore. So I can't promise too many posts the next month but I'm hoping to bring back lot's of stories, souveniers, and photos that look like these...
Thailand
India
Malaysia
Singapore
scout out some stuff that you can one day take me to see...mm k?
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