It Begins
On Tuesday, my Mom and I will leave for a 16-day trip to China.
People go to China all the time. I know this. But it's strange for us to go to China. We've never been the kind of family that motivates for a long and exotic vacation. We go to Michigan. That's our thing.
But sometimes fate takes over and you find yourself in a position where you think, "Well, I guess I should go to China." And that happened this year when my Mom (a 6th grade history teacher) was awarded a sabbatical by the school she's taught at for almost 25 years. And since spending your time on sabbatical watching talk shows and eating snacks is considered "wasting your time," she's decided to kick off this year in style with a big old trip to China.
And, she's generously taking me along in order to have someone to blame things on.
That's a joke. A partial joke.
In addition to being exposed to amazing new people and things, this trip will be a great test of our relationship. She's a Mom. I'm a 25 year old with no particularly settled career path. Actually, the title of this blog should have a question mark after it, or be rephrashed - Can You Take It With You? It's more a hypothesis than a conclusion. There's a tiny chance that we'll get along fabulously. And there's a tiny chance that she will tell every person we meet that I should be in law school. And there's a miniscule but significant chance we'll just drive each other nuts by telling each other how one _SHOULD_ do something. Like, "You should not zip your coat like that." or "You should not handle your nail clippers in that fashion."
And, hence, the blog. An extremely biased study by me.
It's very strange writing on this thing. There's this self-consciousness that isn't present when I'm writing e-mails or letters to individual people. So, forgive initial stilted writing, please. I'm hoping that travel exaughstion and good stories in lieu of exposition will make it less awkward. Or, at least less awkward for me.
We leave on Tuesday. We return September 9th. I'm not even sure if I can use this website in China. But I hope so.
Until we hit Beijing -
People go to China all the time. I know this. But it's strange for us to go to China. We've never been the kind of family that motivates for a long and exotic vacation. We go to Michigan. That's our thing.
But sometimes fate takes over and you find yourself in a position where you think, "Well, I guess I should go to China." And that happened this year when my Mom (a 6th grade history teacher) was awarded a sabbatical by the school she's taught at for almost 25 years. And since spending your time on sabbatical watching talk shows and eating snacks is considered "wasting your time," she's decided to kick off this year in style with a big old trip to China.
And, she's generously taking me along in order to have someone to blame things on.
That's a joke. A partial joke.
In addition to being exposed to amazing new people and things, this trip will be a great test of our relationship. She's a Mom. I'm a 25 year old with no particularly settled career path. Actually, the title of this blog should have a question mark after it, or be rephrashed - Can You Take It With You? It's more a hypothesis than a conclusion. There's a tiny chance that we'll get along fabulously. And there's a tiny chance that she will tell every person we meet that I should be in law school. And there's a miniscule but significant chance we'll just drive each other nuts by telling each other how one _SHOULD_ do something. Like, "You should not zip your coat like that." or "You should not handle your nail clippers in that fashion."
And, hence, the blog. An extremely biased study by me.
It's very strange writing on this thing. There's this self-consciousness that isn't present when I'm writing e-mails or letters to individual people. So, forgive initial stilted writing, please. I'm hoping that travel exaughstion and good stories in lieu of exposition will make it less awkward. Or, at least less awkward for me.
We leave on Tuesday. We return September 9th. I'm not even sure if I can use this website in China. But I hope so.
Until we hit Beijing -
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