Away We Go

So. Here it is.

I'm about three hours away from meeting everyone at the airport in Shanghai. I've been running around LA for the past three days, everywhere from Manhattan Beach to Malibu to Burbank to Pasadena. I've been blasting classic rock out the back of my uncles' red jeep wrangler and living it up for my last few days in the USA. It's odd to think that in less than 24 hours, I'll be speaking mandarin and trying to negotiate my residential visa in Shanghai.

Like everything in my life thus far, I can usually tell when something is going to be important. I can sense when some event or moment is going to have a significant impact on "life" that I can't really explain. Mostly I just get nervous and can feel something shifting in whatever greater universe I'm living in. I know it sounds ridiculous. It's like I can feel something bigger is coming... lol

Now is the moment where I take the leap. I said goodbye to my family, waved goodbye to my home and my friends, and now stand on the edge of this huge adventure that I can't even really see yet. I'm excited, nervous, but mostly just waiting for it to begin. I figure if I can live on my own, work and internship, and be self reliant in Los Angeles for two months... this Shanghai thing shouldn't be too difficult.

Here we go.... Finally :)