Leaving For China

Hello friends and family.

I started this blog in order to better record what I experience during my nine month study at Peking University in Beijing, China.  As a disclaimer, I'm both new to blogging and bad at recording things that happen to me, so I will try to update as much as possible.  I think once I become savy enough I can even post pictures here.

So I will be leaving Logan Airport at 12:33 this coming Wednesday August 25th.  If experience proves me correct my plane will travel over the North Pole before landing at 7 a.m. in Shanghai, China (local time 7 p.m.).  I'll then take a taxi to the Blue Mountain Youth Hostel to meet my friend Eliza.  We'll be staying for about four days and going to see the Shanghai Expo and other sights around the city.  After that I'll take an overnight train to Beijing, where I'll stay with Eliza and her family until September 2nd when my orientation starts. 

I have a plane ticket booked to Boston for May 2, 2011.  We'll see what happens in between.