Welcome

您好, and welcome to my blog. I'm thrilled that now there actually is a website with the URL http://www.justinelescroart(whatever). I'm also thrilled about the rest of this year!

I'm starting this blog because I'm about to travel, quite literally, around the world. My trip began on May 26th, the day that I flew from school back home, from Boston to San Francisco. It will continue on Thursday--that's June 15th--when I'll fly from San Francisco to Beijing. On August 24th I jet from Beijing to Paris, and soon after I'll take the train to Granada, Spain. My Spanish visa expires on December 21st, so I should be headed back to San Francisco around then.

The title of this blog is pronounced "yi hui sheng er hui shu" and is a Chinese expression that means "unfamiliar the first time, familiar the second." I hope that Beijing and Granada--places entirely foreign to me today--will, a year from now, both feel like home.