"Nurse! Prep This Patient For Surgery!"

So.

I have approximately three weeks until I leave, and everything seems to be falling into place.

Mr. Coleman has my blazer, and should soon be setting a date for me to be publicly "Blazered," as my friend Tiffany put it.
I have all my paperwork for the trip... plane ticket confirmations, passport, visa, insurance policies, school information, etc.

All in all, everything is coming together quite nicely! I have been talking to my host family through skype, and they have been talking to me about learning the language.


And that brings me to my present state.
Which consists of me armed with a pencil, linguanaut.com, and a myriad of printing paper. Said paper is covered in a sorry attempt to make my chicken scratch resemble certain characters in the Chinese "alphabet" and a few choice phrases. What's suprising is that i am, in fact, making progress.

I think my subconscious is starting to give off warning signals to my memory saying "hey! you! if you don't start retaining this, you'll be hurting later!!"

Kind of reminds me of Across the Universe.
You know, "Learn French. Learn French or die."

But back to the Taiwan preperations.
I've also made some Tennessee coin pins to trade once i get there.
I bought luggage.
And this whole this is getting very, very, tangible.


I can't wait!

Thanks for reading,
..Phoenix

A Quick Introduction

Welcome to my blog.
In case you didn't know, this blog has been crafted for the sole purpose of giving you a peak into my soul and experiences for the duration of my Rotary Youth Exchange. Before I begin with all of the gory details, let me sum up exactly whats going on here:

I will be living in Tamsui, Taiwan for the 2008-2009 school year.

I will fly out of Memphis, TN at 05:40 on 14 August 2008, fly to Chicago and then San Fransisco. From there I will fly to Taipei, Taiwan. I should arrive in Taipei at about 17:30 on the 15th.

I will attend Yang Ming Senior High School while in Taiwan.

I will live with roughly three families during the exchange, the first being the Huangs. The father, J.C. Huang (建忠-黃), and I have already communicated and is very kind. He is my Home-Pa. ^_^


Now you should have the gist of what exactly is going on, and we can get more personal.
Let me know if you have any questions, and I shall update soon.

-Phoenix
^_^
[[30 days until liftoff]]