the last 15 days..

It's 2:20 in the morning. Earlier, I was already very sleepy but then RG asked me to go to his room. So that now, I once again find myself blogging. Technically, it's already the first of July. Which only means that I, and the rest of my GBF-mates, are down to our last 15 days here in Shanghai!

I remember the first few days we had here. Most especially our field trip to LuJiaZui. During that day, the weather was so bad, I decided to go grab something to eat together with RG, Cheng, Anton, and Tiff V. We found a place in Superbrand Mall and at that time, I already knew that Superbrand was LOVE. It's one of those places I've been to here in Shanghai over and over again! Even if it's kinda far from our dorm.

These past few days I often found myself thinking about stuff to do as well as places to go to. I look at my list of things to do in my ipod and I see that we've probably done everything we can do here in Shanghai. Also probably been to the nearby places we wanted to go to. Perhaps not all but pretty much those that we wanted to go to. I still have 2 Expo tickets with me but I feel lazy already. The Expo is nice and the feel is also nice in a way that it is theme park-ish, but I guess, cueing up for something was just never really my stuff.

I also often find myself now thinking about the things I wanna do when I go home. I wanna go home. I miss home. After almost 5 months of not being in the Philippines, yes, I miss it now!! The small things, the big things, everything!! Believe it or not, it was only here in China where I learned to really check the Inquirer site for daily updates on my beloved country.

I learned a lot from my 5-month long stay here in China. A bit of the language from school and my daily life here but also and most especially on being independent and discovering a new place along with 36 other fellow scholars who were in this journey with me. Personally, I feel that the bit of the Chinese language part that I learned was good enough for me considering that my primary purpose in taking advantage of this opportunity was really to learn more about the life here in CHina as well as to learn more about myself. A nice break as many here in this program would put it. I call it, the time to once again rediscover myself. And I can truly say that I sure did!!

Now I'm down to my last 15 days here. These days I usually spend revisiting my favorite places here, chatting with my fellow scholars, spending time with my classmates, as well as the things I know I won't really have an opportunity to do again in the Philippines. These days I also spend thinking about what awaits me when I go back home.