Two weeks tomorrow..... Welcome to my Blog! It's now the 30th of July and just over two weeks until I leave home for what could be as long as a year. The current feeling is an interesting movement from great excitement to outright terror and then right back again, the more i read about China the more these feelings intensify. To say I don't have some apprehensions going into this would be quite obviously a lie but these fears are consistently outweighed by the excitement of living in what may become the dominant nation of the century, a country that is not just foreign but almost alien to me with an alien language, alien alphabet, alien diet and incomprehensibly alien culture. What scares me about China also excites me from eating every part of every animal
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