On The Horizon

At the risk of giving away a little too much about my personal life, I decided to make this post.

This week has been incredibly insane on account of tomorrow being the start of the week long celebration for the Chinese New Year. So that means a bit of rest and lots of eating with friends who were kind enough to invite me to their homes over the next 2-3 days. When you live alone it is always great to have people to spend a break with so that you don't just sit home and surf the web for a week.

After those 2-3 days things will get a little more interesting for me. Next Wednesday I take a trip to central Taiwan to my ladyfriend's home town. When I'm there I'll be meeting her family for the first time. Usually that is an experience that would make most people a little nervous, the added curve ball is that they don't speak English. Thank God my Chinese is good enough that I can hold conversations/follow conversations with people.

Right now, I would call my feeling nervous anticipation. It is something that I want to do and I'll go through with it but at the same time there is a bit of nervousness in the back of my mind (which is normal). I would liken it to a cross country race. Right before the gun you were always nervous about what was ahead, even though you had run that race innumerable times. You were always tense, but then when the gun went off you settled in.

To say that I'm a little nervous should go without saying. I want to make a good impression but right now I have to wait to do that. Once I get to the doing phase and have less thinking then things go well. In the meantime, I know I'll be ready. Just a matter of waiting for that gun to sound.