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Hello from HongKong!
I am visiting my aunt in HongKong now. I came here from Shenzhen today. The time length is like going to Chicago from Peoria, except I changed multiple buses. :P
It is SOOOO good to be home. Really, nothing and nowhere is like home.
I have been back to Shenzhen for half month already. So many things has been changed. Subway, buildings, and so on...Most of my friends already have their jobs. I can't hang out with them unil they get off work. But it is so nice to get together! I thought there must be barriers between my friends and me because I haven't been home for so long. However, that's true friendship! Friendship will never change because of time and distance. Even though we didn't keep in touch when I was in school, they contacted me right away when they knew that I came back. They took me out for lunch, dinner, or tea. They are SOO sweet! We talked so much...So my voice got destroyed. :P





OK..never mind. the above paragraph was typed when I was in HongKong, probably three weeks ago. For some reasons, I didn't finish it and didn't post it. Guess what? I already came back to the states before I posted that. @.@

So I have been back here for a week. Have been busy since then. My flight back to here wasn't bad. 4 hours from HongKong to Japan. 12 hours from Japan to Chicago. 6 hours lay over. Then half hour from Chicago to Peoria. It sounds complicated and awful maybe. But actually it is way better than flying for straight 16 hours.

Being here is not weird anymore. I automatically ordered coffee when I was at the airport. Sipping that starbucks, I thought of the starbucks in China. It is less sweeter and more flavors. Sometimes, people just don't believe me that how cool China is. Even some of my American friends, who went to China and tried Chinese or American foods over there, love the foods and culture. Oh well, I can't force everybody like my own culture. Just like one of my Chinese friends couldn't understand the American culture and left here before school was over. There are always exceptions. But I do think people should be open-minded and get to know others more than they take assumptions.

I moved into another family yesterday. Everything went well. My host parents for a month are so awesome and sweet. They make me laugh everyday.


My goals of the rest of summer:
1. read Bible everyday and pray
2. work
3. study for next semester
4. learn how to swim. (yes, I do not know how to swim and I did live by the coast when I was in China.)
5. hang out with friends
6. learn how to make easy meals so that I won't eat microwave food or fast food next semester when I live at the dorms

OK. Next goal for this blog is to make a theme for every post...hopefully