Since it's been about a month since my last post, it's probably not very surprising that I have decided to no longer keep updating my blog here. It has been a very useful way of keeping friends and family up to date with my latest stupidity, and a good record of some of the more interesting times. Someone must have appreciated it, it's almost got 1.5K views, but I'm not sure how many of those were me refreshing the page trying to get the damn thing to load. But now I'm settling down for the long haul until the finish line, staying in one place and working for this hotel right up until I leave, so I feel that there's not as much point as updating my blog as before, when my life was changing at a much more rapid click.
I'm really enjoying my internship much more than I thought I would, though. Most interesting is that I am improving my Chinese, I think that's going well. Recently I even decided to move out of the hotel room that I was sharing with a Dutch roommate and into the dormitories for Chinese employees located a 15 minute walk from the hotel in an attempt to get a bit more active in learning, and being, Chinese. I get stared at on the street on the way to and from work, it's been ages since that happened! That's how I know it's real China.
However, good news for the Chinese speakers among you: I will be starting a new blog in Chinese, on my Renren account (the Chinese answer to Facebook). Read it if you can, and if you can't, put it into Google translate and use your imagination. This will be a blog that I intend to keep for the long term and continue to use no matter what country I might find myself in. Even though I've said that about other projects before, I really want to keep my connection to this country and this language for life. I'll still have stuff to write about, plus I'll pretend that it being in Chinese will make the content a lot more exotic and interesting.
I should be home in January or February of next year, I'm not sure about how long my visa will last for yet. Once I get back, I am planning on studying a graduate entry Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice at Flinders University. Basically because a B.A. majoring in Chinese isn't all that useful, especially if you don't want to live in China, which I don't. I'd love a job where I travel sometimes, even a lot, but not all the time, and being in China has that insecure feeling of being a place for journeying, not a destination. So when I get back, I really want to do something that is going to get me to where I want to be in the long term, and get me on the path to achieving something rather than expecting achievement to fall into my lap. I'm even probably going to sit the GAMSAT exam and attempt to get into postgraduate Medicine in 2014. My logic is that with Law or Medicine I could do something apart from becoming a straight-up Doctor or Lawyer that could be much more interesting. And if I have to study something post-graduate, Medicine or Law beats Accounting or something like that. So hopefully I can start crafting an actual future next year, drifting has been fun but it's pretty tiring. In any case, I'll be keeping myself busy both in China and in Australia. See you all when I see you, much love to all.
I couldn't think of a suitable photo for this final post, so here is the link to my new Chinese blog. http://www.renren.com/456335352#!//blog/blog/0/
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