May 27, 2006
oh! september
life is great.
i'm chilling right now in nanning, china. there is nothing here. i haven't really made much of an effort to see anything though, so I cant really blame the place. its a city in china, and i can actually see the sky. i've been eating a lot of dumplings, the past two meals, and i might pick up some more before i head to guangzho tonight.
i really do love dumplings.
i finished my journey through vietnam, and although i went into it with high expectations, vietnam showed me so much more. i have a suspicion that every country i've been to can hold such things for a traveler that vietnam showed me, but its not so easy to get to. I never realized how trivial and cursory a backpacker's journey can really be going by a lonely planet's opinion. if you want to do more than just sightsee, let go and wander and you'll see and experience so much. I had such a romanticized view of the backpacker, but now, I see a person just running through seeing sights that start to run together, with no real meaning besides a little blurb in a handy sized book. A people, a country, is so much more then those sights.
never have i had such great food. It wasn't always good, a few times it was pretty terrible, but I think I was very lucky, and often wandered into amazing meal after another. The people I met would always point me in the right direction. vietnamese food is the best!
i'm going to be another pre-med kid that just didnt do what he had to do.
but, just maybe that wont be such a terrible thing. I have so many aspirations unrelated to the medical field. Although, I truly wish I could help people in such a direct way, maybe I am better suited for another means.
i'm ready to stop traveling and come home.
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i'm chilling right now in nanning, china. there is nothing here. i haven't really made much of an effort to see anything though, so I cant really blame the place. its a city in china, and i can actually see the sky. i've been eating a lot of dumplings, the past two meals, and i might pick up some more before i head to guangzho tonight.
i really do love dumplings.
i finished my journey through vietnam, and although i went into it with high expectations, vietnam showed me so much more. i have a suspicion that every country i've been to can hold such things for a traveler that vietnam showed me, but its not so easy to get to. I never realized how trivial and cursory a backpacker's journey can really be going by a lonely planet's opinion. if you want to do more than just sightsee, let go and wander and you'll see and experience so much. I had such a romanticized view of the backpacker, but now, I see a person just running through seeing sights that start to run together, with no real meaning besides a little blurb in a handy sized book. A people, a country, is so much more then those sights.
never have i had such great food. It wasn't always good, a few times it was pretty terrible, but I think I was very lucky, and often wandered into amazing meal after another. The people I met would always point me in the right direction. vietnamese food is the best!
i'm going to be another pre-med kid that just didnt do what he had to do.
but, just maybe that wont be such a terrible thing. I have so many aspirations unrelated to the medical field. Although, I truly wish I could help people in such a direct way, maybe I am better suited for another means.
i'm ready to stop traveling and come home.