Alright friends, fall quarter’s at a close. Finals all wrapped up, went well.
No real updates on the China/housing front. Started looking for a homestay program, but that’s tricky because I’m not even a student. I’m just a completely unaffiliated kid who wants to live with some random Chinese family, which I feel is more than a little weird if you think about it. Like, do people come to the states and do that? Could _I_ do that? How hard would it be to get a homestay in, for instance, Jersey? That’s about as culturally removed from me as Beijing, at this point. Come to think of it, if we grant that students can get them in most countries without much difficulty, at what age limit does it become strange to let a stranger into your house, even if he is a student? If I dropped out of Northwestern today and came back to finish my degree when I was thirty, could I take a study abroad to, say, Argentina and request to be put with a family? Is there that significant distinction between a 22 year old and a 30 year old? I’d say so, but where’s the line…
Getting stuff packed up, distributing all my crap among my apartment-owning friends (sorry, guys! you’re the best) been selected for some internship thingy tomorrow, but taking it would be a full year commitment for my whole senior year, so I’m lukewarm about it. Supposed to be a really cool job though. Ergh. Either way should start planning for this summer, but it just seems so far away.
Anyway, ski trip soon. Looking forward to it, hopefully will be able to get some cool pictures of the mountains on here.