Back.

I'm home from China! It's really an indescribable experience,
except for a novel's worth...so that'll come later.
I say it's--present tense--becasue it's an ongoing process of thoughts and emotions.
As for now, I've got a Math final TONIGHT to study for...so I'm going to do that instead. Bazerk, I know.
Of course, while studying, I'm sipping Chinese tea (that Autumn thinks tastes like Bacon, and I think smells so much like China it hurts) and listening to Michael Buble, which is the next best thing to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy or the like, which I'm in the mood for, as China's always on my mind...
I'm basically leading a double-life this week.
The Schoenwald's are here, which is so much fun--Disneyland, Beach, Hinrichs Compound, Swimming Hole, Horseback Riding, Sea World, hiking to the Hollywood sign, walks on the Plateau...so much fun.
and then there's all the thought about China: memories flood their way into my thoughts quite often, prayers for so many, contemplations on next summer, jetlag, joys, sorrows, hard things, wonderful things, hard, wonderful things, a twice-broken broken toe from swing dancing
(or lifts, flips, and drops....yes, drops. Thanks, Greg ;), thoughts of the kiddos now in their orphanages...so many memories.