approaching the 7-month-iversary

I've always been a winter girl, but living in Changsha is about to turn me into a summer one--even when I know summer means temps and humidity like Arkansas. Currently the weather is still a bit bipolar, and it's not quite warm enough all the time to warrant turning off the heaters, but I'll be glad when it is. On FB just now, I realized that lots of people are on Spring Break, which I had totally forgotten since my Spring (Festival) Break was a month ago.

Not that much is new here, I've been observed twice but we still haven't had a staff meeting. Amy and I tried one of the bars downtown for the first time this past weekend; it was okay, not many expat girls, mostly guys who just want to date Chinese girls. We found a group of people to talk to for the night, but they're all leaving this summer. My current dilemma is that Amy and Julianne, the only other twenty-something teachers, are leaving for good in July, and I don't know any other expats in town. I'm trying to get out and meet some, and hopefully the school will hire at least one other young person.

Anyone who has spent enough quality time with me knows that I am a Disney princess at heart (Belle, to be specific), and I was listening to some princess tunes the other day and caught this gem.

"I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I want it more than I can tell
And for once it might be grand to have someone understand
I want so much more than they've got planned"

As I heard this bit from Beauty and the Beast, I remembered that I used to stand on my grandma's front lawn overlooking the pond and re-enact this scene from the movie--Belle runs out of the house and the wind is blowing and she throws her arms around...I used to know it by heart. And now, I'm doing it. Funny how life works out, isn't it?