Christmas is Coming!

Perhaps it's spending the past four years living at college and coming home for visits that makes living on the other side of the planet easier? Whatever it is, I expected this time of year to be harder for me, I expected soul crushing home sickness. Yet I feel fine, I feel excited! I have an awesome group of friends with whom I'll be spending Christmas with.

My Awesome Friends

Plus for the very first time, I have my own Christmas tree which I just finished decorating. Don't judge the decorations too much, remember I'm in China, not too much variety here.

My First Christmas Tree

My wonderful tree! It will be strange waking up on Christams morning in my apartment all alone, but I know I won't be the only one and with the comfort of my friends I'm positive we will make some Christmas memories we will never forget :-)

Plus, I've already decided what my Christmas present to myself is, a five-week backpacking trip through Southern China! Yay for long holidays.

Travel Plans for Vacation

The green line is our backpacking trip, the red line is our flight back (we don't have enough time to backpack the whole thing).