They said: "I'm jealous, I wish I could go there". "If there was one place in the world I could go it would be China". Some people were shocked not because it was China just because it cost money to fly on the plane and a lot of people didn't have money to travel where I live. They couldn't even go to New York and that state is a couple of states away from my own.

My parents were thrilled for me, because they knew I had wanted to live in Asian for a long time. My friends told me they wished I could go. Everybody says I'm brave, even my dad said I was the bravest person he knows (but that's probably just because I'm his daughter lol). They make it sound like it's something that's difficult to do. If anything, I was afraid that if I didn't go, I'd regret it.

Awww, crap, where's she off to this time.... hopefully this place we can find on the map. (NB: my family and friends are not ill-educated, I just have a penchant for living in slightly odd places).

"How long? When are you coming back? Good luck!"

(and probably, "don't let the door hit you on the way out" )

Oh my God . . . he's finally got a job

It was the first time I realized my father knows nothing about the modern world. He said "You should be doing that kind of thing after you've paid off your student loans."

Yet, here I am, making almost what I made back home, and living for a quarter of the cost, hence saving that much more money. I can pay them all off by the end of there, would have take three back home.