A Brief Intermission
We are in Japantown at the Miyako Radisson at staging. Tomorrow morning we leave for China. There are 61 volunteers from all over the country that will leave as well. These people will be a big part of our support system over the next couple of years. While there will inevitably be some attrition, I feel very confident that I will get to know most of them very well.
Odds and ends:
I was able to see Superman! I was bummed out that I couldn't see it. When I was a kid he was a favorite of mine. C'mon, who wouldn't like the man of steel?
The hotel was out of normal rooms so they asked me if it was okay to move us to a deluxe suite. I thought about it for 1/430483403984th of a second and accepted. We now have the Mariana Trench for a bathtub and a football field of goosedown for a bed (with adjustable firmness!) on the 14th floor. I like it, but it is hardly the right way to get us acclimated to the new lifestyle that we are about to undertake. Oh well.
Question: If you were to have one last meal in America before you left for two years, what would you eat? Shell got a grilled cheese and I got a burger (grilled onions, mushrooms and cheese....mmmmm). Gotta have that last grease fix, right?
Here is our address for the next couple of months for those of you who want to send snail mail:
U.S. China Friendship Volunteers
Peace Corps / China
Sichuan University
No. 29 Wangjiang Road
Chengdu, Sichuan, 610064
We are learning a lot and look forward to using our new knowledge.
Odds and ends:
I was able to see Superman! I was bummed out that I couldn't see it. When I was a kid he was a favorite of mine. C'mon, who wouldn't like the man of steel?
The hotel was out of normal rooms so they asked me if it was okay to move us to a deluxe suite. I thought about it for 1/430483403984th of a second and accepted. We now have the Mariana Trench for a bathtub and a football field of goosedown for a bed (with adjustable firmness!) on the 14th floor. I like it, but it is hardly the right way to get us acclimated to the new lifestyle that we are about to undertake. Oh well.
Question: If you were to have one last meal in America before you left for two years, what would you eat? Shell got a grilled cheese and I got a burger (grilled onions, mushrooms and cheese....mmmmm). Gotta have that last grease fix, right?
Here is our address for the next couple of months for those of you who want to send snail mail:
U.S. China Friendship Volunteers
Peace Corps / China
Sichuan University
No. 29 Wangjiang Road
Chengdu, Sichuan, 610064
We are learning a lot and look forward to using our new knowledge.
2 Comments:
That's it Mr. Ross. I'm mailing you a DQ cheesburger, no mustard, extra pickles with onions, just the way I like them and just the way I like to make them. Or maybe I'll just send cookies . . . I'll have Tim make them.
WOOHOO! SUPERMAN ROCKS!!!!! when i was younger (around 4 or 5), i told everyone that superman was my boyfriend and that i was going to marry him! BUT THEN I LEARNED ABOUT LOIS LANE AND THE WORLD ABOUT ENDED FOR ME! but oh well life does goes on.
and Greg, FYI...no one likes DQ cheeseburgers. everyone knows that McDonalds chesseburgers are like the best!
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