Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Where Have All the Blogs Gone!?

So in case you haven't noticed, I never got the opportunity to update my blog in China. Unfortuntely the Chinese government blocks a number of website including blogs and Facebook. It's a glaring fact of a country in which personal freedom is tightly controlled in order to maintain governmental power. Very sad. I'd like to say that I was an excellent little blogger and maintained a journal despite the lack of internet access, but I've never proved to be that diligent in the past, so why start? ;) Now that I've been able to get some perspective on the trip, I'm going to start jotting down the experiences to share. So keep and eye out for it, ok? Oh, and here I am on the Great Wall of China (in a snow storm!)

Monday, November 2, 2009

And We're Off!

It's been a wild couple of days leading up to our departure date, what with mom, dad and Katy S's birthdays and one of the biggest Halloweens I've experienced in recent years all in one week. So I got all packed up and ready to go today. I hope I have everything I need, but I have the feeling that if there is something essential, I'll be able to find it in China (as opposed to when we were in India! - nothing was easy to find there!) I'll try to update as much as possible, but I have no idea how the internet will be and what kind of access we will have. Fingers crossed that it's easily accessible!

Until then...