After a few months without blogging, I’ve decided to start again. I’ll admit, I missed it, and when I went home in February I had a few requests to start one up again. I named the blog “Letters from Asia” because I’ll probably stray from stories about the country I’m currently living in, China. Although I expect that most of what I write about will be about China and my experiences as a student in Nanjing, I’ll also probably write now and again about the Philippines, a country I grew to appreciate and love during the year I spent there working at a television station.
For those of you who stumble upon my blog who aren’t members of my family or my friends, here’s a little about me: I’m an American studying Chinese at Nanjing Normal University for a year. About a year and a half ago I left what some might consider to be a”stable” job with a community newspaper in Lake Tahoe to move to Manila to work for a television station undergoing enormous change. When my year in Manila was up, I moved back to China to continue what I started a few years ago when I taught English in Hangzhou.
I love to get comments from people, especially those who are more insightful than I am (and there are plenty of you out there), so I’m looking forward to hearing from all of you.
Think about how boring that “stable job” was vs what you’ve experienced the last year and a half…