Or rather, bracing for it. I’m heading out in exactly one month, losing January 2nd to travel, and hopefully recovering from jetlag on the 3rd. Work at Qunar starts on the 4th and ends on March 11th, at which point I’ll be going to Hawaii to meet my family for their spring break, then spending the subsequent week (NU’s spring break) in Austin. I’ll of course be back in school for spring quarter, and don’t anticipate taking another quarter off between now and graduation.
So between now and New Year’s Day I’ve only got a couple obstacles left, chief among them being lodging. Shouldn’t be that big of a deal; the visa and plane tickets are already taken care of so I’m at least guaranteed to arrive in Beijing — so I feel like where I crash once I’m there is kinda a secondary concern. I hear there’s a nice hostel above Pyro Pizza. Seriously though I’m talking to both Gu 老师 and a secretary at Qunar about finding me somewhere to live; ideally I’d want to do a homestay program of some sort but I’m not sure how viable that is given that I won’t be a student
That’s pretty much it, really. Just gotta get through finals week (Monday is looking awful) and it’s smooth sailing. Ski trip with Northwestern, seeing Austin friends/family, Christmas, New Years, China, Hawaii, double spring break. I’ve got a lot to look forward to. Presently I’m most unreasonably excited about the ski trip, because I’m honestly failing to see how it will be anything but incredible. They’ve been having a good amount of snow, I’m rooming with Ben, Geoff and John Sias, skiing is probably my favorite sport and I don’t get to do it that much anymore, 等等。