We cross the border from China into Kyrgyzstan today I and realised when I woke up this morning and thought about new language and new money and new customs that China feels like home.
A friend posted a David Sedaris article about China on facebook the other day and I remember, when I first arrived, feeling shocked by the things that Sedaris feels shocked by. I remember six months of being utterly mystified by China in 2001. And, while I still don't always 'get it', I now find China comforting and familiar.
I am going to miss our guide, Coco. On camp nights I have been in a tent on my own and she has slept on Asima, but on the hotel nights we have stayed up late gossiping and doing girl things. Speaking of tents. I bought a new sleeping bag yesterday. I was sore tempted by the down ones (rated to -30degrees) but good sense won the day and I bought a polyester one (still rated to -18).
The half way mark of the trip was a few days ago, which means slightly under 2 months to go until Istanbul. I rarely get the 'but where did the time go' sensation and if I think too much about it I wonder how I am going to manage.
At any rate. Tomorrow we go through the three check points, customs and immigration into Kyrgyzstan and I will have access to youtube, facebook without proxy and my blog again (and I will be able to reply to comments!). I am really looking forward to seeing Samuel L. Jackson reading Go the F%ck to Sleep.
Assuming I find my computer power cable which, just at the moment, is a tiny bit lost.
2 comments:
don't mean to punish your blog with comments, but this has to be said:
noni does it better.
Feel free to punish. I have watched the Noni one, now and it was AWESOME.
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