I am back!

Hi everyone! I feel badly that I have not posted in a month. The reasons?? you might ask, are many. I had limited access to the Internet in London and I was only there for a few days, then when I was in Germany I spent most of my time reading a few awesome books, Wicked by Gregory McGuire, the Wild Swans by Jung Chang, both fantastic books. I also figured that I wouldn't get a lot of reading done in Nottingham as my Aunt and Uncle have the TV on all the time and it is impossible for me to read with the TV noise in the background. So I figured that I would be able to use the Internet there. I was wrong and was not welcome to use it there so then again I only had limited access. Finally, I did not take my computer with me so my journaling was done by hand in a note book. I will have to get those entries into the computer and post them.

Anyway, I have a ton things I want to say. I went on a pub crawl in Nottingham which was both great and really depressing as I realized towards the end of the night that I am alone and have to start over again. It sucks. I never thought I would be here again, I thought Marc was the one.

I also got in touch with a friend from the UW, Poppy. "Hello!" if you are reading this. I hope to further that relationship as she is a lovely girl and I am happy that she is my friend. In fact, I have realized that many people that I have met in the past are really good people and I didn't let them in enough to my life and should have worked a little harder to embrace them into my life and make better friends of them.

I went to Germany and had a wonderful time. Now my friends there and I are planning a motorcycle trip in the US in October. I hope it all works out. I am really dying to ride again. I miss my motorcycle. I am thinking that I will return to the US in March because I need to get some legal advice ont he divorce proceedings and that will incorporate a motorcycle trip as well.

And finally, I returned to China, wow that was an adventure, I will tell you all about it in a later blog. Let's just say it took me 4 days of traveling to get to the rig including an unplanned day in the capital of inner Mongolia, Hou Hot(not sure of the spelling). I was totally exhausted and am still battling jet lag but I have been really bad by sleeping in the day time and staying up way to late at night. I will be forced to get over it tomorrow as I have a full day of teaching. Then every day after that until next Sunday.

So, If I have not written to you and I owe you a mail, you will get it this week. I will also try to get caught up on my European adventure here in the blog. It actually was quite tame. I discovered a lot about myself and realized that I really did not have much to do with the break up. Much of it is because of my former partner's inability to communicate and deep buried baggage which I had no way of realizing how severely it cripples him in relationships. It makes me sad that I was so blind, but I guess that love does that to you. Also, when you want something so badly and love someone so fully you tend to ignore the signs.

Enough about that. I do want to thank all of my friends who have offered their support and I will hopefully be able to see you all soon. I do not intend to stop traveling as that was not only something that Marc and I enjoyed doing together, it is also something that I am simply addicted to even without Marc. So I will continue to travel and eventually find my bliss and see you all agian in the process.