Wednesday, April 04, 2007  4:03 AM
Pre-departure
Shanghai beckons tomorrow, and I'm wondering what the next eight days are going to be like. Suzhou and Hangzhou will follow after, and I'm looking forward to some breathtaking scenery and being in a country where I speak the language of my ancestors. The Chinese spelling competiton I did with Cemin today at the claypot restaurant didn't help my confidence level at all, I wrote 朝国 instead of 韩国 and I actually forgot how to write the 察 in 警察.
Packing took the whole night, with Qi lying languorously in bed and laughing at me because I was having such a headache "packing light". I simply can't do it, I've never packed light in my life so packing eight days worth of clothes into one duffel bag was such a feat. I literally sat on my bed and stared listlessly into space for minutes at a time with a major headache because I couldn't decide which clothes to match, and how I couldn't just bring one jacket because that would mean all my photographs would just feature one outfit. And my grey trenchcoat and the backpack combination was fashion suicide, I gazed at myself in absolute despair in the mirror for five minutes. I almost gave up the backpack idea but that slight bit of practicality in me set in because I definitely wouldn't be able to squeeze all the shopping I do in Shanghai into my nice fake $20 Balenciaga-Chloe looking bag. So another jacket comes into the picture, one that would match the backpack. Packing light really does not exist in my vocabulary, just like relative velocity doesn't.
你好，中国。
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