Today marks the one year anniversary of this blog.  When my daughter asked, “What is your purpose?” I answered, “Simply to START WRITING.”  Ann B. Ross, one of my favorite current writers says, “To be a writer, you must write.” So, I have used this blog as a way to write regularly. In my home are several of those portable file boxes full of stuff I have written.  I often made a good start, only to fizzle out in the middle.  All my life, I have wanted to “be a writer” and by this I meant, to be paid to be a published writer.  The realization of that goal is still to come, but meanwhile, I find the blog to be an outlet at least, and a beginning of discipline.  This medium is another aspect of the modern world that I find fascinating.

Last year at this time, we were preparing to go to China, now we are preparing to go home.  We had a “visa issue” last year, and this year, we have a “visa issue” again.  We’ll be making a trip to Hong Kong to resolve the issue.  Our son said, “Hong Kong might be fun,” and that is the way we have to see it.  The new high speed train from Wuhan to Shenzhen is now in operation, and we plan to use it.  We’ll visit some former students on the way and then go into Hong Kong to change our visas to the appropriate ones for volunteering.  Finally, we’ll fly to Beijing to start the training for the volunteer program.  After putting in a whole school year, the one month program will seem short, and then we’ll be on the way home.

One year complete, another beginning.  Here’s to living life as a continual adventure, to writing about the adventure, and to laughing our way through.  Raise a glass with me wherever you are.   Onward!