Voice of Will: About Travel in China

2005-04-06 - 3:49 p.m.
(replying to my father about travel time to china)
That is very true. And it is more like 24 hours of travel time if you aren't in LA. Pain in the back, legs, hips and everything else.

Crissy landed at 10 am our time, and is currently home sleeping, the kids are reading the books and comic books she brought, and I'm just happy she is home. She has had some adventures, and has been regaling me with parts of it here and there.

Future plans. Not sure. She had 7 job interviews, and 5 firm job offers, and like 4 job offers for just summer work. These offers include North Carolina (hard job offer, to work at at risk school, 40k a year and get loans dismissed), Maryland (just outside DC) 40 k a year, New York Public Schools (anywhere she wants to work as a high school esl teacher). Offer to work for Samsung in Korea teaching executives english at 25K, plus housing, schooling, etc. And an unspecified offer for the United Arab Emerates (very intriguing, but not sure yet).

We will probably come back here next year (after all 2 years on a resume looks a lot more respectable than one year). I like my job here, after all, I get to show american movies, and discuss how they have effected culture, or been effected by culture (I'd pay to do it, heck I do it often enough for free for fun. Not sure how I worked that out, but I'll take it).

To everyone who made crissy's trip more eventful thank you. I mean it. I have missed all of you more than you can possibly know (unless you love us as much as we love you, then you know). Hearing how you all have changed, and yet remained the same is heartening, and touching, as well as disappointing because I cannot be there with you.

I know most of you are going through difficult times, with tough choices, and the heart ache, the stress, and difficulties. Know this, I know you will do your best, and I believe in you. I always have, and always will. I will see you over the summer, and until then I will see you in crissy's anecdotes (I can see how you stand, how you express yourselves, and even how you are looking.

Will