Today marks the one year anniversary of this blog.\u00a0 When my daughter asked, “What is your purpose?” I answered, “Simply to START WRITING.”\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I often made a good start, only to fizzle out in the middle.\u00a0 All my life, I have wanted to “be a writer” and by this I meant, to be paid to be a published writer.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 This medium is another aspect of the modern world that I find fascinating.<\/p>\n
Last year at this time, we were preparing to go to China, now we are preparing to go home.\u00a0 We had a “visa issue” last year, and this year, we have a “visa issue” again.\u00a0 We’ll be making a trip to Hong Kong to resolve the issue.\u00a0 Our son said, “Hong Kong might be fun,” and that is the way we have to see it.\u00a0 The new high speed train from Wuhan to Shenzhen is now in operation, and we plan to use it.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Finally, we’ll fly to Beijing to start the training for the volunteer program.\u00a0 After putting in a whole school year, the one month program will seem short, and then we’ll be on the way home.<\/p>\n
One year complete, another beginning.\u00a0 Here’s to living life as a continual adventure, to writing about the adventure, and to laughing our way through.\u00a0 Raise a glass with me wherever you are.\u00a0\u00a0 Onward!<\/p>\n
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