I got over jet lag pretty quickly. Less than one day and I'm back in business. Matthew is having a hard time adjusting to the time difference. However, he doesn't have a choice. He starts school next Wednesday and he's got to get back into the swing of things.
I've been putzing around, running errands and grocery shopping. I'm going to start my enormous project of printing out the pictures from our trip back to the States and of course, start my schedule for continuing my Mandarin lessons. I may decide to back down and just have it once a week now. I've gotten lazy since my sabbatical in the States. Nice to know that I haven't lost all the lanaguage during my absence from Shanghai.
Matthew will be entering the fifth grade and it's hard to believe that a year has flown by. It didn't seem like that long ago that we left to move to China and yet, our return to the States for vacation seemed so seamless.
I have a ton of things to do, doesn't seem like I have any time to complete our projects and yet, I want to plan a trip to go somewhere like...Tibet or Singapore. The October holiday week is fast approaching and I know that I am behind the eight ball to plan anything at this time. The trips have all been booked and I am so far behind. We can't decide whether to go to Tokyo for Christmas and spend the time in Disney in the COLD or just hang out here in Shanghai and just pull the covers over our head.
We're expecting relatives from Hong Kong to visit next month and that will start the procession of visitors. Tony is supposed to visit in November. Gus may come as well or he may come in October for Formula One. Then again, there's the Chinese New Year holiday and Easter. Nevertheless, we're back in business in Shanghai and it's as if we never left.
