updates

It's been a while since I've been on here. Please disregard every journal I ever wrote, ever! What a disaster! Let's start over, those of you who are left (I think that's no one).
New interesting things that I can summarize quickly because I have a physical chemistry exam to study for:
- I am a double major in environmental science and biochemistry in my 4th out of 5 years (but i am ready to get OUT OF HERE i HATE SMALL TOWNS... one more year, I'll milk it for all its Worth)
- I recently won the gold prize in a Chinese proficiency/speech competition and with it got a full scholarship to get my masters at Nanjing University (most well-known for its physics and environmental fields), so that's the post-grad plan, to get a masters in env engineering while part-time interning since the school is in a major provincial capital instead of a tiny miserable village like my current school is (don't get me wrong love my school itself but not the location), then I am literally done with school why does everyone keep asking if I'm interested in getting a phd like ???!!!?? I saw enough of that life with my ex thanks & NO THANX!
- on the note of boys, my current boy and I are going to China this summer and we are going to live in Chengdu, where he plans to intern in his father's friend's company and I have nailed down an internship with an microbiology company in their environmental microbiome department working as a sales associate...bc I have discovered I hate research/labs and I want to be Out and About interacting with people like I did in my internship last summer (but this one is better, since I am more interested in what they are doing.. last yr was indoor environmental health). This position will give me a lot of chances to talk to clients, give presentations, run seminars, go to conferences, etc so I am Verr Excited and then on top of that the entire thing will be in Mandarin. I did my interview (over skype tragically, wasn't about to drop 1000 bucks to have an hour long chat about bacteria) in Mandarin I literally can't get enough of this language I want to learn E V E R Y T H I N G !!!!
- on the note of China I have crammed a -lot- of stuff into the summer plan, in addition to the internship I'll be going to boy's hometown in Yunnan province for two weeks to volunteer in his father's concrete factory's wastewater treatment plant (no really though i am SUPER exCITED) and also just explore the city and see nature and whatever... and I'll also be going to a student environment conference in Shanghai, and going to Beijing to meet some people on behalf of one of my lab groups (I work in two right now, one that does stream water quality monitoring and one that does wastewater treatment), going to Nanjing to find a faculty advisor, and going to Thailand because umm visa problems mean that I have to leave mainland China in two month intervals until I have a stable long-term student visa as a masters student at NJU #struggles, but I'm not really going to complain because I am literally dying to go scuba diving!!
- that's enough for now, I'm getting guilty about my physical chemistry. but as you can see, life is full of excitement. I hope yours is too.