Greetings.

My name is Mike. I'm studying abroad in China. This is my blog.

If you're reading this, you already know me, and so I can probably skip the exposition. I'll also save you the meta-commentary on blogging so that we can get to the important stuff (me).

I'm writing this in Dulles International (though we'll see if I manage to connect to the internet here), and I'm surrounded by Koreans. Ahead of me is a sixteen(ish?) hour flight and a twenty-hour layover in Seoul before I finally make it to Beijing because SOMEONE (me) decided that twenty hours in Seoul would be fun and not a horrible nuisance.

I'm cutting this one off here for three reasons: 1. Boarding is in fifteen minutes, which is about how long it takes to enjoy a sandwich, and I have a wonderful sandwich my mom packed for me. 2. I want to get this post out before arriving in Beijing so I can post this out on Facebook (which I am told is one of the internet Mongols kept out by the Great Firewall). 3. I haven't even made it to China and I'm supposed to say something interesting? No sir.

In the meantime, you should read friends of mine who have way better study abroad blogs than me:
http://vamosaitam.blogspot.com/ (Carlo Burriesci, in the land of Montezuma)
http://atathakr.blogspot.com/ (Andrew Daly, in the land of the pharoahs)
http://thoughtsandstoriesfromkenya.blogspot.com/ (Peter Glover, in the land of recent constitutional referenda (Kenya))