November 2011
Thanks to winning a free ticket to Paris, I left my little sunny island and went backpacking alone in Europe. It was the most expensive vacation of my life and the last time I stayed at a hotel. I have to admit it was daunting at the beginning but everything else just falls into place as you go along. The following year I spent two months in Thailand and earned myself a CELTA certificate with which I’d hoped would take me around the world. Finally landed an English teaching job in China and before you know it, it has been two years and I now find myself writing this in my little duplex, in a hutong in Beijing.
赢了一张飞往巴黎的机票。自己去了欧洲一个人背包旅行。那是我第一次自己旅行，也是我最后一次住酒店。刚开始的确有点害怕，但是一切都渐渐客服，渐渐习惯。接着我去了泰国，考取了一张剑桥教成人英语的证书，希望它能带我游世界。结果在中国找到了一份工作，成了英语老师，一转眼已经两年了。我在北京的胡同里写下了这些话。
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stevenson
