I missed the place

I wrote in the little black book I took to China that I wanted to return to the forests of Humboldt when I returned to California.  I wrote that maybe I would go to Somes Bar.  I noted that I missed the place.  I went on to write that I felt like those places would inevitably not be the same though—and not because I went to China.  I wrote that it was because that I was not there and that I wasn’t able to watch all of the people go and see all the new people come.

I had other notebooks from this era too that I used for class.  There are posts in them from March 29^th.  One of the notebooks was for my vocabulary class and the other was for my listening class but I can’t tell the difference.  In the green one I recorded information about buildings—like the top of the building and the door.  There are notes for addressing and the order for each address component: street, door etc.  I wrote the words for different rooms in a building.  There was a test every week too and I wrote down the answers in roman script—which is sort of ironic.

In the orange notebook I wrote sentences in Chinese and listed words in pin yin—the roman script for the characters.  These were the different people in a family: father mother and others.  There are also a few notes for the first also.  For instance I wrote about the order of sentences and a group of words that I have a hard time interpreting.

This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.