For those of you who are viewing my blog and do not know who I am you may not be aware of the fact that I am preparing myself for the studying experience of a lifetime. I am a very big fan of travel and I love seeing new things so I have an extensive knowledge of travel. However, I am about to embark on a journey that all of my life I have only been able to dream of. This coming January, I will be leaving the United States for six months. I will be living in Shanghai, China and will be going to school at the Sydney Institute of Language and Commerce. There I will have the opportunity to experience life in China at the most intimate level, and hopefully I will finally be able to say with confidence that I speak Chinese.
This will not be my first time in China. I have been to China twice and both times I was able to spend a nice amount of time there, but this time will be very different. In the past I went and just played for three to four weeks with my girlfriend and friends there, but this time I will have school to focus on. This fact makes me a little nervous.
In spite of my nerves I am very excited. I love China and I love my friends over there. They have always been such good people and it will be great to be able to hang out with them again.
There is one thing that is putting a bit of a strain on this program however. The Visa! I must get a formal acceptance letter from the university over there in China before I can apply for the visa. Yet, I have now been waiting for the letter for like 3 weeks. I am beginning to get a little frustrated about it.
Anyways enough about the sad status of my visa. The real reason I wanted to write this blog was to introduce my youtube miniseries idea. While I am in China I will be picking a variety of different blogs that I write and instead of actually writing a blog I will make a Video Blog. the videos will then be posted on Youtube for people to watch and be a part of my travels. I will be doing the videos for you guys. So that you can see what life in China can be like for an american. Each new episode will be including more and more Chinese language, I hope, and will be centered around either shopping in China, or cooking in China, or something like that.
I will warn you. I have never done a video blog before so it will be a learning experience for me. I just hope that my viewers will give me feedback and allow me to make it better as time goes by.
This will not be my first time in China. I have been to China twice and both times I was able to spend a nice amount of time there, but this time will be very different. In the past I went and just played for three to four weeks with my girlfriend and friends there, but this time I will have school to focus on. This fact makes me a little nervous.
In spite of my nerves I am very excited. I love China and I love my friends over there. They have always been such good people and it will be great to be able to hang out with them again.
There is one thing that is putting a bit of a strain on this program however. The Visa! I must get a formal acceptance letter from the university over there in China before I can apply for the visa. Yet, I have now been waiting for the letter for like 3 weeks. I am beginning to get a little frustrated about it.
Anyways enough about the sad status of my visa. The real reason I wanted to write this blog was to introduce my youtube miniseries idea. While I am in China I will be picking a variety of different blogs that I write and instead of actually writing a blog I will make a Video Blog. the videos will then be posted on Youtube for people to watch and be a part of my travels. I will be doing the videos for you guys. So that you can see what life in China can be like for an american. Each new episode will be including more and more Chinese language, I hope, and will be centered around either shopping in China, or cooking in China, or something like that.
I will warn you. I have never done a video blog before so it will be a learning experience for me. I just hope that my viewers will give me feedback and allow me to make it better as time goes by.
Need new font, this one is difficult to read. The kerning on the letters is set at like -3.4345345.
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