Alex

The first thought of the day the last couple of days have been: "I gotta get out of Beijing!". I'm serious. No joking. I thought I would never say it, but I don't want to stay in this city. It's not because of Beijing, really not. It's more because I've already seen everything, done everything (that I'm even remotely interested in doing, that is), I went through all of that last year. There isn't so much to do. Even though it's heaven to sit out in the hostel yard a couple of hours every day, reading, writig, studying, I can hardly spend my whole day doing just that. Things just haven't been all that exciting since Amanda left. Tsst.

This morning I had another first thought of the day: "I'm leaving."
I got up and put on my jeans. When I put on my jeans in this heat, you can be sure of that I mean business. Serious business, such as require a pair of jeans. I  walked to the grand railway station. It's just on the end of the street I'm living at, which means that it took me over half an hour to get there. (Somewhere in the process I realized the mistake of wearing jeans in this heat, serious business or not.) Then I made the most pathetic attempt to get a ticket ever made. That is, I walked in, got confused, walked around for a while, got lost, tried to ask where the heck I could buy a ticket at the info desk and was overrun by a zillion Chinese, said to my self: "F*ck this, I can find the damned ticket desk myself.", walked around for a little longer, went out of the building, walked back to the hostel and paid a extra 40 yuan to have the staff order my ticket for me. Self-sufficient and what not. 

I'm leaving to Wuhan on tuesday night, about nine-ish. I will spend over ten hours in a middle bed, a hard middle bed. I arrive to Wuchang about 7 o'clock in the morning the day after. (And for those who don't know, Wuchang is one of the three parts of Wuhan.) I'll be a mess, but at least I'll sleep tight the night after.

"I gotta get out of Beijing!" have been buzzing around too loudly lately, but still, I know Beijing. Wuhan is unknown, uncertain, strange, and a bit scary. That's the basis of it's appeal, of course. I like it that way. But I can't pretend that I'm not nervous. I'm going home. I hope I'll like it, I've never seen it before.



Alex

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