• Tonya-2... The Series •
Home IS
Everywhere
You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.
– Miriam Adeney
Wednesday 14-April (10am): Hello, Dalian!
I arrived last night. Rod Stewart is playing in the lobby. Yes, in China. And it’s the ‘show tunes’ album he put out a few years back (so no ‘Maggie’ or ‘Gasoline Alley’). I will find over the course of
Wednesday 14-April (7pm): Hot Pot!
One of my colleagues, Tracy, had been to Nashville a year or so ago and we spent a lot of time together then. She took me shopping on Wednesday night. I wasn’t good company – the jet lag had hit
Friday 16-April (11am): My friend, Phoebe.
When I first started to put the Dalian site together, there was no team in China. Just me… me and Phoebe. Phoebe was the project manager assigned by the Dalian Software Park team to help us negotiate the task of
Friday 16-April (7pm): Korean Barbecue… in China.
Well, you know Dalian is closer in distance to North Korea than it is to Beijing… so it would be no surprise that we went to dinner on Friday night at a place that is known for Korean barbecue. The
Saturday 17-April (6pm): Shoppers Paradise? No – trapped under one roof for 6 hours!
I love shopping. More and more and more, I love shopping… but really truly only if you can actually afford to buy anything. The prices at the Hong Kong airport border on obscene. So – nice ‘looking’ during my 6hr
Saturday 17-April (7pm): Starbucks Celebrity in the house!
So I’m a gold card Starbucks coffee club member. When you stop and get an iced coffee four or five times a week before yoga, it’s just easy to rack up points and get the benefits of their program (like
Sunday 18-April (4am): Hi, honey… I’m HOME!
Plane landed around 2am. A few luggage challenges (don’t ask – all that matters is that I got home with ALL of it!), and I was to the hotel by 4am. I believe I have achieved some sort of ‘platinum
Sunday 18-April (10am): The ‘princess treatment’ continues.
I know, I know… it’s all about me. But, heck – that’s all there is right now. Me and the road… and my peeps who take succccccccch good care of me. I got up this morning, put on my yoga
Sunday 18-April (5pm): I do it myself!
It’s no surprise to any of you that my first complete sentence was “I do it myself”… However, in Bangalore that has been difficult to put into practice. I have an extensive set of well-intended ‘handlers’ here and every move