Falling slowly...

Hello.

I haven't posted in a while...a long while, really...

Plenty of things have happened. I graduated, for one thing. I'll be attending college in the fall, which is always a mixture of anticipation and anxiety and new surroundings. For a while it didn't feel like school had ended. It just felt like I was on an abnormally long weekend...the realization that I may not ever again see some people I've been accustomed to seeing every school day or on occasional weekends hasn't hit me yet. Not quite. I've been preoccupied with a 2-week trip to China to tour and visit relatives, then a piano recital I needed to memorize my pieces for, and currently a medical program in which I shadow doctors and nurses all day.

In China, I saw a graveyard for the first time. I saw an old beggar lady collecting newspapers on the metro train to resell. I saw a trailer for Eclipse on TV (the only trailer I'd ever seen of it). I heard Taylor Swift's "Love Story" on the radio. I huddled under an umbrella with my mom as we tried to navigate through the Shanghai World Expo under the pouring rain. I ate delicious hotpot meals for under ten dollars. I bought breakfast at 5:30 am from across the street. I played with my #!$^&@* ing adorable 3-year-old cousin who resembles me. I had my hair cut by a guy who probably weighed 90 pounds. I saw at least ten of the most light blue, limpid, and beautiful lakes I've ever seen, surrounded by brighter-than-emerald green forest and tourists clicking away at their cameras. I was bitten by mosquitos no less than 15 times. I slept on a foldable bamboo bed. It wasn't too bad. We hung all our clothes out to dry. I didn't see a single dryer in China lol, just drying racks. 82 degrees Celsius is cool weather.

In other news, my guilty music obsession with kpop hasn't let up...and I just bought an album of my favorite group for the first time from a mall in Koreatown. Volunteering at Los Robles has also lost its inital purpose. I may or may not even go there again...I'll miss them...

Bittersweet memories, that is all I'm taking with me~
So goodbye. Please, don't cry.
We both know I'm not what you, you need~