March-ing Along

This past week was the HK-China Fulbright Research Forum, which included 3 1/2 days of discussion groups and reflection on our projects. It was amazing to meet Fulbrighters from China and Taiwan (I believe there are about 80 China Fulbrighters) and learn more about their projects and experiences abroad. I'm so impressed by everyone... what a amazing group of articulate, driven, talented, innovative, passionate, and interesting people! I'm just proud to be a part of it all. The conference also served as a means of mid-point reflection. After filling out my mid-point review, I realized that I have to step it up a notch and stay motivated in order to finish. I can't believe it's March already. Looking back, I feel as if I've accomplished certain things, but need to work on others (i.e. learning Cantonese). I feel disjointed in terms of my creative work, since I've started a few poetry manuscripts and haven't been able to finish them. Hong Kong is shortening my attention span! Also, I have a bunch of individual short stories and poems floating around. I need to really sit down and put it all together. And of course, keep producing work.

On a random side note, we met Martin Yan of PBS's Yan Can Cook during a lunch for the Better HK Foundation! I grew up watching the show and it was pretty hilarious meeting him (my mom used to say she could have a tv show because of him).





I'm also hearing back from MFA programs now and have been accepted to Iowa and Columbia. I'm really excited about this...