You're So Cute; I Just Want to Box You Up

I got the name of this blog from one of Sitra's photo albums on facebook. Out of her 110 albums, almost every single one had a title with a funny quote that someone said the night the pictures were taken. I was looking through her pictures last week and started cracking up with the titles of some of the albums: "Are Those French Fries? No, Wait That's Apple Pie", "At Least Try to Tuck It In" and my personal favorite, "You're Always Darting Back and Forth All Mysterious and Sweaty."

I don't remember the context behind the photo album "You're So Cute; I Just Want to Box You Up" but I thought it was fitting for my blog since that is how I'm feeling about pretty much everything and everyone in my life right now: my boyfriend Adam, the crazy troublemakers at OFP/CY, my college and high schools friends, my family—I just want to put everyone in a box and bring them with me to China. I'm pretty sure that would be the best-case scenario. Just some of the people I want to take with me in a box:

A few of my friends from high school: Dana, Grace, Amy, Lisa, Megan and me- Yes, I do want to take all ten of you with me, but I really liked this picture of us at the St. Maurice fair

Victoria, Lindsey, Becky, Patrick and me at Obama's Inauguration

The rugby team

OFP/CY at Kate and Danielle's good-bye party

You know who you are at the one and only Guthridge on Amy's birthday

Valeria, Becky and me in Georgetown

Adam and me at prom

My family in front of our old house

I've always thought that blogs were really lame. And I still do. I feel incredibly narcissistic writing in this damn thing right now. But I want a record of my travels and I want my friends and family to be able to get a snapshot of what I'm doing in China on an everyday basis—instead of once a week when I have time to call or email or instead of trying to tell everybody about my trip when I return in June. My hope is that all the people who have touched my life will be able to find this blog entertaining and informative. However, I still want all of you to email me and let me know what is going on in your life! I'm very nosy so I find other people's lives incredibly interesting and definitely want to keep up my email correspondence. My second goal of this blog is to give people in the U.S. a clear picture of the life and culture of the Chinese people. Happy reading!