Allison Chang

Greetings! Is anyone there? No….? Nothing.

Oh well. I enjoy writing to myself. So it was mind-boggling to read the last entry I posted right before I left for China. I am glad that I did that, to document the things I was doing in LA. Because you see, I’ve been back for 2 weeks and it’s as if I never left at all. I find I am doing the same things, leading the same lifestyle.

Anyway, why the silence while I was away in China? The Chinese goverment blocked me from my own blog! So I had to start a new one, JUST for CHINA. Read here, if you care. The latest post is very shitty, thrown together for the sake of the study abroad assignment required from Northeastern. But there are some good depictions in there.

I’d talk about China, but that was SO 5 months ago. INTROSPECTION SEGUE: Today, I am surprised to identify myself (as identified by others, although I shouldn’t rely on others’ opinions to identify myself) as a person who simply cannot sit still. A world traveler, jet-setter, nomad, transient, blah blah…I am waiting for something to STOP ME. Ok, moving on.

I’ve basically been living it up in LA, soaking in the wonderful AMERICANNESS & CALIFORNIANNESS before I have to move to Cleveland for 6 dreary months for my 3rd co-op job. Honestly, I am scared. Yes. I will hop on a sleeper train in China by myself, and couchsurf with people I don’t know in Inner Mongolia; I’m completely willing to go to Africa and run around the jungles, I’ll bungee jump off a helicopter in Germany…anything along those lines, because these things don’t scare me one bit. But the prospect of moving to the MIDWEST for a 9-5 cubicle job….that terrifies me. It does. Rattles me to the bones. Gives me nightmares. I already feel suffocated to the point of death.

Everything is going to change, has been changing, things will never be the same. Family is planning to sell the house, to move further inland, further east and further away from Los Angeles. Bu hao. And parents are expecting to move in with me by age 25. WHAT?!

Highlights of LA, to remember as I sulk away in Cleveland:
Tokyo Tables Tuesdays w/ Ronny, Derrick, & Co.; SD trip for graduation & clubbing at OnBroadway (hey hei-se-ren!); Gold Room Combo w/ Duo Jenny & Tommy and meeting Zack Morris; Talia’s visit to LA(!!!); 35cent cock-tails at The Edison in Downtown LA; Redondo Beach: getting pulled over (drinkin’) with 4 ppl in the back seat, after two pen tests and a breathalyzer I get off the hook with no ticket & no warning; falling asleep at the wheel hitting a curb – missing hubcap and ID credit cards which were later brought back to me; stepping in Gizmo’s dog poo; MJ’s death & FF’s anal cancer according to Tammy; Father’s day with the Chang family and using some Chinese; visiting United Auto 5 times in one week; spontaneous surfing adventure at Venice Beach; Yoga w/ live music and the couchsurfer; catching up with all sorts of people; and now I’m in my last week to look forward to here in LA!!!!

People often ask me where’s my next adventure? Where will I end up? Here’s my answer: I have seen many things, been to many places, but I will always come back to LA. LA is where my home is. It’s my town.