day 387: [昌吉 (Changji)] = 0 km

There’s an end to everything … even the sweetest summer vacation.

So, upon returning to 昌吉 (Changji) today, I decided to finally get rid of my shoes:

Remember how sad I was when I had to say good-bye to the Caboose? Well this time, I wasn’t very unhappy at all, mainly because those shoes and me had never been a very good fit anyway. Besides, I don’t think I will need them in the near future.

There are no walking plans for the next one or two years.

I must continue my studies, pass Russian III and IV, hustle through History of Ancient Greece and Rome, and survive Theory of Slavic Literatures. There is a paper on 关羽 (Guan Yu) to be written, and some stuff about F. Kafka and F. Dostoyevsky. And then there is the final thesis, which I have no clue about as of yet. Phew…

But besides all that, I have accepted a book deal with a German publisher.

This is of course awesome news, but it means that now I must write, write, write, write, write and write.

I will try to post something new here every once in a while though, as long as I can find the time: stuff about China, about travel books, about miscellaneous advice, about vodka brands or about other random things that I enjoy talking about.

Life is good.

I hope yours is, too!

Soundtrack: 113 – “Juste Un Mic”

—total: 4927,5km