Goodbye America

Well, the time has finally arrived. In a few short hours, I will be leaving Memphis for Detroit, and then at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon, I will be sitting on a plane headed for Shanghai.

I'm excited. And I'll post the first picture of China I take whenever I get a chance.

再见美国，我已经想你。

Nerves

Well I started to get the impression yesterday that I shouldn't be taking this trip to China. My sister knocked my Blackberry in the swimming pool and then my computer cord broke. Then I saw the moon and the sun in the same sky, a black owl and the face of Guan Yu (关羽) on one of my Baked Lays.

Basically, I was seeing a lot of bad omens that all pointed to me not going to China.

Today, however, was better. I got a new computer cord, my BBerry came on and the screen worked, the sun went down and the moon came up, the only bird I saw was Pete the cockatoo and all of my chips were yellow, round and faceless (except the Doritos, thankfully - it was, however, also faceless).

So now I'm comfortable again with running off to the Orient, which is good since my plane leaves in less than 4 days.

Now all I have to worry about is North Korea, but maybe they won't get too crazy.

再见,

马舒凯

***UPDATE*** (too many stars? oops)

At the behest of the People, my friend Jennings has started a blog. It can be found by clicking anywhere in these two sentences.