Hello devious folk :aww:
This will most likely be my last journal entry, if not ever, at least for a very long time. For the past year and a half, I have been seriously thinking of leaving the country to travel the world indefinitely and, after long planning and saving money, the day has finally come. Therefore, on the 8th of June, I will be leaving the country, with my boyfriend and our motorbike, to travel around Europe at first, then Northern Africa, Russia, Siberia and beyond. It will be a long journey of sleeping rough, bad roads, but also lovely people just waiting to be met and amazing places to see.
For those of you who are probably
It's been almost five years since I last visited my homeland, and I'm excited and scared at the same time.
My last visit in 2009 left me a bit traumatized but I think I'm okay now. My stepmother and half brother in China had tried to kill me with a kitchen knife. I was shaking and crying when I escaped in a taxi that night. After that event, I couldn't feel safe anymore. I changed my flight to return to the US sooner, and never wanted to go back again.
But that's in the past now. I miss my grandparents and other relatives. I miss the food, the cicadas, the unique mountainscape of Sichuan, and ever dwindling bits of the old city that's quick