My next post will be from Shanghai. I would not be shocked if my next post is something along the lines of:

"I'm about to die from exhaustion... People aren't meant to travel for so long and far at once... Now I'm off to lay comatose in my Chinese bed for about the rest of my life..."
-Future Me

At any rate I leave my house at 9:45 am, leave Pittsburgh for Detroit at 12:15, and then leave there at 4:25 to start my 18.5 hour leg to Shanghai.

Annie, Yoyo, and Gina are picking me up at Pudong International!! That is really nice of them, and I'm glad I'll see people that I know so far away! They are meeting me at the gate. Hopefully there are no mixups though, because I won't have a functioning phone in China haha.

So I have a long couple of days coming up. Wish me luck.

Goodbye, America! See you at Christmas!!

This Journal

I leave for China in less than 10 days!!

I have been informed that Facebook is blocked in China (along with Youtube and many other websites). I hope that this blog is not included in that list of blocked sites.

At any rate, For many of you, this will be my only form of communication with you! Please comment here so that I can hear from you! You can also email me at Howardar@washjeff.edu or you can skype me. AIM (RunningWars) may or may not be accessable, so if I am online, send me a message!!

Please do not try to call my cell phone while I am away!! It can only result in one thing: costing one of us millions of dollars.

Finally, I know that journals like these can become tedious, boring, and powerfully ego-centric. Because of this, I will do my best to keep my posts brief, informative, but most of all: at least mildly entertaining.

Have a great semester in the United States!!

Andy

P.S. In the event that this website is blocked in China, I will ask someone via e-mail to post any subsequent blog URLs to the Facebook group associated with this blog. Please refer to that if I seem to be not posting here!