Today I submitted my last final, a paper on the similarities and differences between Greater-Chinese and American commercial film for Chinese Contemporaneity Cinema, so felt like I should discuss what my plans are for Jared in China. I will staying until June 1, a bit after the formal end of my program.
As with all things, I always planned the Jared in China blog to be a temporary; I expected to end Jared in China when Jared was no longer in China. To be honest, I actually expected my only reader to be my Mom and to kill Jared in China with little fanfare. To my surprise I usually get between 100-200 hits a week here, sometimes even more, so I now feel like I should explain my plans for Jared in China. I am still planning on ending the blog. I just don't think I will have as much to say nor will you have as much interest in reading about my summer studying for the LSAT and GRE tests in New Jersey. The good thing about writing a blog while abroad is almost everything I do is somewhat inherently interesting. It doesn't take much to make a trip to the fresh, aka live, fish section of a Chinese grocery store a fun read, but, once I return, my trip to an American grocery store is a weekly chore for most of my readers (although I don't know for certain since I only have the free web hosting subscription and that package doesn't include my readers location). I am not planning on ending Jared in China the minute I return to the United States. I am planning on doing travel updates at major stops on my trip home, likely just Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and home home. Since I took so many photos during my time in Shanghai, I would like to do a top photos post or two. I am definitely going to do some kind of China retrospective once I return to the US. I am not sure how long this retrospective will be, I might have to break it up somehow but I will only know that once I start writing it. Since I am going to be summarizing 9 months of my life I am expecting it to be long. I will need some time to decompress before writing it though. I would also like to do a blog statistics post of some kind. Finally, I am planning on turning some of my experiences in China into more formalized projects. I will hopefully be able to use my time in China as inspiration at least for a Juniata College Liberal Arts Symposium project next school year. I have a few other ideas for things I would like to base off my time in abroad but those are so rough I don't wan't to go into them. I expect that something about my time in China and Asia will come to benefit me later on in a way I can't foresee now. While I don't plan on becoming Professor Miller of East China Normal University you never really know when things pop up again. I would also like to note that I do plan on keeping a normal posting schedule until I leave China on June 1. I would like to thank my readers for the continued support of my blog and myself throughout my year abroad. Actually having readers who might get annoyed at me if I didn't write defiantly motivated me to write more regularly than I normally do. I would like to apologize for the occasional periods where I was not as diligent with posting as I should have been. I would also like to apologize for some of the misspellings. While the end of Jared in China might be a bit sad, I plan to keep doing interesting things for quite some time. Who knows, perhaps I will come back to blogging, perhaps I will think of a better name for my next blog than Jared in China.
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Dad
5/27/2017 02:14:03 am
How about naming the next blog "JaredonMars." That should be pretty interesting although I heard the wifi up there really sucks.
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