Off to the Races

First of all, thank you all for reading and supporting me on this trip!
Tomorrow after a grueling arisal of 4:30am, I will be on my way to Vancoover and then Beijing,China! Time has flown and I'm finally going to board that airplane! This last couple of weeks have been unexpectably calm, though in the past 10 minutes my dearest mother has reminded me twice to not forget my passport and three times not to forget to dress modestly. That's one huge thing that I didn't expect, the dress code in China. Right now, thanks to what everyone has told me, I'm expecting people to run around in 80 degree weather in long sleves and jeans.... So we'll see what happens. At least I got a shopping trip out of it!! The thing I'm most worried about right now is buying my train ticket from Beijing to Zheng Zhou, and the actual arival. Aparently the woman who's picking me up doesn't know any English, quick shout out to my Chinese teachers... THANK YOU SO MUCH. Another worry is the phone situation, I'm going to call my aunt the second I land in China, however I may need to get a new phone, which surprised me because you'd think with all the technology we have these days that international cell phone service might be pretty essential. Anyways I'm just about to go have my goodbye dinner with my best friend Maria, certain tears for this one.

Kira