I"M GOING BACK!!!
well possibly, but it's going to happen. I'll make sure of it!
It all started with an email form my university about a case study. If you don't know what that is, the short version is that you apply to get on the university team, where you get a case, analyze it and then write a 10 page report in 10 days. If that report is well liked then you get to make a formal presentation of it at the International Case Competition Finals. What was amazing about this opportunity is that the International Finals are being held in, you guessed it, HONG KONG!!! So of course I applied to be on the team (and totally mentioned that I had attended the school in Hong Kong hosting the final competition)!!
Right after I hit send on my application, I knew I wasn't adjusting well to life not in Hong Kong (it just isn't as exciting) since I just agreed to spend my summer writing at minimum a 10 page report minus appendices and the exective summary (thats around 15 pages minimum!). All this just for the chance to go back to Hong Kong for 4 days. Definitely not adjusting well. Plus, when I applied, it didn't even cross my mind that this would be such a great learing experience, and how great this will be to talk about in interviews. No, the only thing going through my mind was Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HONG KONG.
When I actually received the "congratulatioins you are on the team" email, I was in the grocery store parking lot and I actually teared up at the blaze of hope in my soul this opportunity provided. I then proceded to text everyone I knew from my study abroad and brag about my new found hope (they are all extremely jealous by the way).
So now I've started planning my savings in order to afford this inevitable trip (I will do everything I possibly can to make it to the finals, that I promise). Thank goodness for my amazing internship with Hickory Farms this summer so I can use half my paycheck to save! I don't think I can wait until November to go again (because, once again, I WILL BE GOING BACK) but I guess thats better than the alternative of not going at all. Patience was never a virtue of mine though...
Pray for me as my team works on the case! I can't leave this trip up to just hard work (though I'll have plenty of that)!
