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[quote=DESTRUCKDOZ,269750]Chinese New Year celebration has always been a date that I reflected upon the past year. Since today is sort of the last day of celebration for me and my family, I was reflecting about this past year and some of the decisions I made.

One of them happened to be on this particular date exactly. I was sitting on a ticket to Guangzhou a long with visa, passport, RMB and travelers checks all ready with a departure date of 19 days. And in an instant I was ready to hand it all to someone else because I didn’t want to go. This trip was an arrangement made by my parents who wanted me to go back and see where our family comes from (a really poor village) and it happened to work out well for them since my aunt was playing matchmaker and marrying off my cousin to some Chinese girl there so I wouldn’t be traveling alone.

The only reason I agreed to go was that it was that it was paid vacation time as well as paid vacation expenses from my parents who happen to be my employer as well. So instead of staying here in the US to work for a wage, I decided to go because I didn’t have to work and get paid for it but the catch was that I would have to stay in the village for most of the vacation.

Which was why I was debating whether I should to go to china or not. A year later I am so glad that I had went to china and experience the culture there, meet relatives, and talk to some amazing people and how much it has changed me. But after my plane landed in San Francisco I wanted to hop on another plane going back. There was not a day that I didn’t think about going back to china and the last 5 months that ended today was all about going back but sadly, I am not leaving in 19 days. And quite certainly not for another 365 days.

Have any of you fellow members had the same feeling? I am afraid that I may end up in a mental hospital room down the hall from Britney Spears (just kidding) if I don’t go back to China next year. 
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