Anxious.

I'm China bound in an hour. I'm crazy anxious for my next new adventure. I have dark chocolate and dried edamame packed and in hand. Mid-flight stress, I've already planned ahead.

I can't sit still. Nor talk to anyone. If I do, I only feel word vomit with the combination of deer-in-the-headlights gazes. It's real and it's today. No syllabi, navigating new classes, seeing old friends. Only mandarin tones, chopsticks and dark hair and I'm still in the San Francisco airport. Ready or not, I'm heading to Shanghai.

Goodbye School. Goodbye Family and Friends. Goodbye Iowa. Goodbye party in the U.S.A. ;)

Ni hao Zhong guo.