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Last night I had dinner with Margaux and two of our Cyrenz students, Jo and Chars, best friends and alpha women extraordinaire (according to Jo's boyfriend the self-confessed pansy :p). Jo and Chars are two of the most intelligent people I've ever met... so smart, it scares me how I can carry on a thoroughly engaging adult conversation with two 18-year-old girls. I have had people tell me Jo reminds them of me or I remind them of Jo, while others claim Chars is a less nasty, more girly version of me. I take those as very high compliments indeed.

My sister came home from Hong Kong last night. She was gone for only three days but I missed her. We've been roomies for 22 years, and I'm so used to having her around I get disoriented when I don't see her within 24 hours. I don't know how I managed to survive living in Beijing for half a year without her (the day I left I was crying when I hugged her goodbye; I never got homesick but I did miss my siblings terribly the whole time we were apart). I don't want to think about the separation anxiety I'll have when one of us leaves the house for good (whoever goes first; fair contest as of now, haha).

Next week I'll be accompanying my dad to New York to attend the annual Arrow global conference. I'm so excited. I've only been to New York once, on tour, but I've always liked the city (been brainwashed by all the TV shows that create this cool image of the Big Apple, hehe). My dad promises to go wherever I want to go on our free day (I feel like a spoiled five-year-old). Tangsoc recommended we go to Serendipty (yes, the same cafe in the movie of the same name) and have their frozen hot chocolate (my mouth was already watering when she mentioned it). I also want to see The Lion King on Broadway. I only wish my sister were going with us. Sniff. Here I go again.