The time has almost come...

Well my peoples soon I will be heading off to the motherland. My flight leaves early in the morning on Monday. The days here seem to go by almost instantaneously the closer I get to leaving. I will miss all of my family and friends (and probably English too,hehe) while I am gone. I will think about everyone often. I am going to try and make a conscious effort to blog a few times a week while I am in China. Hopefully I will have some good stories to tell...^_^ The best way to get a hold of me if anyone is interested is probably online through my email (adamabarth@hotmail.com) or facebook and myspace. I am online usually every night and I will try to respond as quick as possible. I am planning on buying a cell phone and some calling cards once I get settled in. After I do I will post my number on here. I will be attending Yunnan Normal University (Shi Da, in Chinese) and I will be living in a city called Kunming.

Kunming is the capital of Yunnan province which borders Vietnam, Laos, Mynmar, and Tibet. Yunnan is the most ethnically diverse province in China so I will have a great opportunity to meet many different people! I really want to travel a lot and go to some places that will be close to me. My goal for the next year is to make it to... Nepal, India, and Japan. Who knows if I can make it to these countries, but hopefully I can figure it out. Also I want to travel all over China and I think I will take a trip to Beijing to visit my Chinese teacher from SCSU and my friend Candy. Close to me I there are two cities I want to go and see...Dali and Chengdu. I am starting to ramble now, cuz there are so many places I want to go. The list could go on for forever...hehe. I posted a few pictures on here so you can see what Kunming and Yunnan look like.


I am blessed to have this opportunity and excited to make the big move to China. I wish everyone the best while I am gone and I will miss everyone dearly.

One Love

Adam (亚丹)

A phone call from China...

So lately I have been getting a little frustrated with my soon to come trip back to the motherland. The school that I plan on attending has been giving me the run around a little bit and it has been difficult to deal with. Recently while on a fishing trip in Canada my uncle Mark had told me the "Secret" to life. Apparently every successful person in the world knows this secret. Basically in order to life the life you desire you must "will it" to happen. If you are willing to work as hard as you can and not take no for an answer you can accomplish damn near anything you want. Last night before I went to bed I told my self I am going to will my dream of studying in China to a reality. I want it that bad. So I pass out like any other night only to be awoken by my father at 4 in the morning. He bursts opens my door and says "China is on the phone". I can barely comprehend reality at this point and I don't know what is going on. I grab the phone and I hear a sweet voice talking to me. She says we would like you to come and study at our university. If we send you some forms do you think you will be able to get your visa? I said yes I believe so. Then she double checked my address to make sure it was right and said they were going to mail the forms to me. I had so many more questions to ask her like.....Did I get the scholarship? Can I reserve a room in the dorms? etc. All of which I did not ask, but I am not worried about that. It is funny because she did not say that I did or did not get the scholarship. I am assuming that I did not and I am totally ok with that, but i think it is kinda funny that I still do not know. In a previous email I had told them I would like to live in the dorms by myself and they said that would be no problem so I think that should be ok. I am very happy to hear from them and to get this dream of mine back on track. I am going to try and get there as soon as possible. Right now my goal is to be there by Sept. 2. So that is my story I was awoken last night by a phone call from China.....if you believe in the secret anything is possible. One Love

Peace, Adam