I bought my ticket to China today. I will be there from the 28th of May to the 20th of August. Rae will be on the same flights as me, which should make them much easier to handle. I have decided to do the responsible thing and only go for the summer, rather than to stay there indefinately to live the life of the low class expat. Even if it would be more fun, I know I should come back and do a masters degree while this econ stuff is still relatively fresh in my head.

I saw my thesis advisor today. He told me what I had been fearing most, that I have to stop running regressions and start writing. It has been so long since I have written anything, I fear that I am out of practice. I also feel that the data should speak for its self, I don't knwo what I could write about it that isn't blatently obvious, but then, maybe that is what I am supposed to be writing in the first place. Either way he has given me one week to write it, and I have already wasted the first night.

My thesis topic is immigration and the children of immigrants. This is a topic that interests me greatly. In high school I wrote my IB extended essay on the effects of immigration on the housing prices in Vancouver. It was badly done and I did not even know the proper methodology to use, but the interest was certainly there. I suppose part of it is being in Vancouver and seeing so many immigrants it is only natural to have a curiosity. This curiosity has been further intensified by having an immigrant girlfriend.

It grows late, I should sleep

Marc