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It's negative 5 here in Madison, plus 19 in Beijing. This in itself is a reason to look forward to the landing after a 15 hour flight. I leave in three days.

Though concentrating on Chinese Language and Literature at University, it has been more than two years since I've studied 中文 with any semblance of diligence. Yesterday I got an email from the director of the start-up wilderness therapy company I will be interviewing with shortly after my arrival. It was all in Chinese.

Living in the Driftless area the past few months has been a dream. I spent my entire childhood and adolescence between these hills, yet it all seems so different after living in the deserts, mountains, and open spaces of out west. The communities and people of Spring Green, Gays Mills, and Viroqua struck me as especially warm and uncommon.

Of course, perhaps "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

Thank you to everyone who has been so kind to me these past few months and made my time in Wisconsin a pleasure!