[EDIT July 2008]
>>Seems like forever ago doesn't it? Anyway, not much to say except my galleries have mostly gone defunct so I'm currently uploading the pictures to a new site. Let me know if the links work or don't.
Haven't done any recent traveling, except to places like Boston and Chicago. Haven't decided to put those up here though. Next time I go somewhere exciting, I'll be back. Count on it.<<

Wrapping up my travel journal as far as my junior year in China goes. Sad to see it all end.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

First Semester


Orientation Week in California and Beijing :: Post | Gallery

Silk Road Urumqi :: Post | Gallery

Silk Road Tian Chi :: Post | Gallery

Silk Road Turpan :: Post | Gallery

Silk Road Dunhuang:: Post | Gallery

Silk Road The Great Wall at Jiayuguan :: Post | Gallery

Silk Road Lanzhou :: Post | Gallery

Silk Road Xiahe :: Post | Gallery

Silk Road Xi’an :: Post | Gallery

The Great Wall at Simatai :: Post | Gallery

Forbidden City and Jingshan Park :: Post | Gallery

Summer Palace :: Post | Gallery

The Great Wall on the Ocean :: Post | Gallery

Guilin (Post 1) :: Post | Gallery

Guilin (Post 2) Yangshuo :: Post | Gallery 1 | Gallery 2

Guilin (Post 3) Longshen :: Post | Gallery

Fragarant Hills :: Post | Gallery

Kangxi Grasslands Horseback Riding:: Post | Gallery

Buddhism Field Trip To Monastery :: Post | Gallery

Art Field Trip To Forbidden City and Art Gallery :: Post | Gallery

Badaling Wildlife Reserve :: Post | Gallery

Chengdu :: Post | Gallery


Second Semester

Update: Sept/08 :: The site I had these second semester pictures on is no longer alive, so I'm uploading all the pictures to this site. Individual links in the posts will be updated with the individual galleries as well. Thanks.

Yunnan Kunming :: Post | Gallery

Yunnan Zhongdian/Tibet/Shangri-la (Post 1) :: Post | Gallery

Yunnan Zhongdian/Tibet/Shangri-la (Post 2) :: Post | Gallery

Yunnan Lijiang :: Post | Gallery

Yunnan Dali (Chinese New Year) :: Post | Gallery

Yunnan Xishuangbanna :: Post | Gallery

Shanghai Shanghai, Xitang, Hanzhou :: Post | Gallery

Haerbing/Ice Festival :: Post | Gallery

Houhai/Ice Skating :: Post | Gallery

Langmusi/Xiahe (May Break) :: Post | Gallery | Article

Chengdu/Jiuzhaigou (My sister’s visit) :: Post | Gallery

Forbidden City (with sister) :: Post | Gallery

TianTan :: Post | Gallery

Random :: Post | Gallery




Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.




再见。

~罗可儿 Nikki

Last China post, tying up some of my loose ends.

Pictures of Sam and I when we went to Forbidden City.
Pictures from when I went to TianTan after Sam left.
Random pictures of me, my friends, and China.

Feel free to browse back on some of my other galleries there. I lied about it being my last post, I came up with a better idea. I will create one last post with links to all of my picture galleries for easy access. I hope you all enjoyed reading about my travels, I can’t say I didn’t enjoy going on them. China is in my heart forever. 我爱中国。我想中国。 我会从没忘。

Forbidden City


TianTan


Random



~Nikki

Back in the states, reach me on my cell (940)594-1142

Days go by fast, do they not? The time has come for me to say goodbye to everyone! I'm leaving for China tomorrow and won't be online for at least 3 weeks. I don't know what my internet situation will be like, but I'll be on as much as I can!

What's going on : I leave for LA tomorrow. On Wednesday (MY B-DAY) I'm flying to Beijing. The first week in Beijing is orientation. The next two weeks are the Silk Road trip. Then we are back for a week and then classes start the second week of September.

I have Skype the free internet phone service. If you want to contact me with that my user name is mystico_tala.

My address in China::

University of International Business and Economics
International Students Center - TBC
Nikki Resendes, Rm 609
10 Huixin East Street
Chaoyang District
Beijing 100029, China

My dorm phone is 001.86.10.6449.6761 Not that I expect anyone to call me on that :P


Everyone that wants a post card or something, give me your address in this post or e-mail it to me. I may also be sending out some e-mails to a few friends that don't have journals, if you want to recieve that, let me know!!

(((((hugs)))))

~Nikki