The Beginning

This is just the first blog. Im new to blogging so this is sort just a how to get a feel for how the whole system works. Right now I am in a hospital bed participating in a medical research study to pay for this trip to China. But as that has nothing to do with anything than a really easy source of a few thousand dollars.
So to introduce myself and this adventure in a little bit more detail. I am a student at Texas State University Studying Aquatic Biology, with the aim of becomming a high school biology teacher. Because I am in a BA program I have to take a conciderable amount of language. I have already studied French for many years and the tought of taking Spanish, which in my opinion is dirty French, or other language so similar I thought silly. I started to learn a little about studying abroad and earning the credit that way. After a week or two of searching the internet I found out that Asia is REALLY cheap to study in, unlike Europe. School, Cost of living, Airfare, etc... its all cheaper in Asia. S. America is cheap but Spanish is last on my list of languages to learn. I really could not tell you why I have a predjudice against Spanish, most my family speaks it, well that might be it, I really don't know.
After a month of searching I discovered Wuhan University, by far the most beautiful university I have ever seen. With the tuition of roughly $2000 US for a year. Besides not speaking a word of Chinese, not knowing a thing about Chinese culture, not knowing anyone in the country. To be quite honest all I know about China is what I have seen in Jackie Chan movies. So besides that there is no reason not to go right?
Here let me list why I am going.

5. I need language credit, A year abroad will cover it
4. Its something other than French
3. I've never been to China
2. It's Cheap
1. Why not?

You may find it silly but honestly I think "Why Not" is the best reason to leave home for a year to the complete opposite of the world. People always say that youth is wasted on the young. How many country songs say to "don't blink" "Dont let the world pass you by?" This is what youth is about, I have my whole life to work, live in one place and do that whole suberbia. I have the time to venture now. I have the money to go. I have the youth to think a year that could possibly mean no hot water, malfunctioning laundry machines, 110 degree year around temperature change, a place where you could not drink the tap water, and a place where I speak not a word of the local language sounds like an awsome adventure that could not be passed up!

Well I think that is enough for one night.