Tag: Holiday
I’m Going Home!!!
by Sean on Jun.03, 2010, under Miscellaneous, USA
I know I haven’t been updating this website lately, but if you go to my personal blog you’ll know why. Just as a side note before I continue, today is the 701st day I’ve been in China. Since I’ve been so busy since March working my butt off to save money for this trip (so far I have $7000 saved), I’ll give you a preliminary budget and outline for my USA trip:
- July 1: Fly from Wuhan to Shanghai, Shanghai to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to Miami
- August 6-9: Fly from Fort Lauderdale to Chicago to see my friend Ish
- August 14: Fly from Fort Lauderdale to Seattle to see the Twins and Maddy
- August 15: Skydive in Seattle
- August 17: Fly to San Francisco
- August 21: Rent a car and hit the road south to Monterrey
- August 22: Drive to LA
- August 26: Fly from Los Angeles to Shanghai
- August 26: Fly from Shanghai to Wuhan
As I mentioned above, I’ll be coming home with $7000, $2200 of which will be going to pay back my credit card bills (flights and pre-existing charges), thus leaving me with about $4800. My roundtrip tickets (WH-SH,SH-LAX,LAX-FLL,LAX-SH,SH-WH) cost $1800, which I know is a lot, but considering I used only one website to book them all in a row without any hassles, it’s a good deal.
My intent is to spend no more than $2000, and I should be able to stick to that budget since my friend Ish generously offered to cover my expenses (need to look for a cheapppppp flight, anyone?). During the times not specified, I’m free to do whatever I want, and will be seeing as many people in Florida (Miami, Pines, Weston, Davie, Coral Springs, Orlando, Gainesville) as I can. It’s already proving to be a crazy trip.
It’s been 2 very long, trying years that have also been very fruitful and educational. 1 more year to go!
After It All
by Sean on Jan.27, 2010, under Daily Life
The last time I bothered to write on the blog, I mentioned the cold weather and the problems I was having with various things, so here’s that update. It’s still cold every day, but thankfully it’s been about 10F warmer on average, so at least my fingers and toes don’t become icicles while I’m riding the bike. Speaking of bikes, the company that manages the system decided to cut down our allotted time from 4 hours to 2 hours, but if you need the bike for longer you’re still able to ask them to add time as long as you go to a station before the 2 hours are up.
Being on a 6 week holiday might seem really nice to some people who have to work all year round and only get a few days off per year, but trust me it’s not as fun as one would think. For a good part of the day I find myself as I am right now: wrapped in a blanket sitting on my leather arm chair in my room playing on the computer. Since everyone I know is still working, I usually wait until mid-afternoon or early evening to go out and do things with them.
You may have this image in your mind that my hair is down to my back and my face hasn’t been shaved in months, but I can assure you I’m at least taking care of my myself in that sense! I’m also quite busy working on different ideas I have that would take me down different paths, because I’m quite bored/sick of being a teacher, and although I do want to stay here for a while longer, I refuse to do it as a teacher.
Meanwhile, in my spare time I’m watching a lot of movies and practicing my Chinese, because since I didn’t mention it above, the American job would require me to be fluent in Chinese, which I’m currently not but on my way there.
I want to date people and enjoy myself, but I think the best thing for me is to focus on myself and meditate and figure out my issues and why they’re giving me problems. Only after this is done will I find the strength from within to see new people and hopefully forge good relationships with them.
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