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After being on a plane for what, 14 hours? I'm so happy to be here. I haven't visited in 4 years, so a lot has changed.

Umm. There is internet here XD But I don't plan on being online much because my sister has more important stuff to be doing.

Anyways, I got here safely and there isn't really much else to say. The food here is so delicious you can't compare to anything from America. I plan on gaining some weight :) Omnomnom.

I can't sleep and I've run out of things to do without waking other people up. I guess I feel like complaining. My older sister went to China this morning to spend the next month with Chinese friends interviewing students for her thesis. She was supposed to stay until my brother and I left again, but she left early because she wants to catch students before they have to start studying for exams. She was supposed to have arrived hours ago but hasn't called yet. My mom had me leave messages everywhere that I could think of and she's in a state of panic right now. She keeps telling me to heck my cell phone, to text Jessica again or to try calling again.

I was worried before, but I think I'm going to go crazy with the constant barrage of comments. I thought she went to sleep twice already, and she keeps on getting up to check what I'm doing or to try to glean contact information of Jessica's friends from her computer. Really honestly, its not like I'd try to hide the fact that Jessica contacted me, so I don't think that she needs to be paranoid. I understand she's worried. I'm worried too. But there really isn't a lot anyone can do right now.

I keep thinking of worse case scenarios and then stopping myself before I turn into my mother. I just really can't think of a reason why Jessica hasn't called. She stopped responding to texts maybe 12 hours ago, but I thought that was reasonable. The SIM card she has is good for Hong Kong only so she would have to get a new one once she reached China. If the phone numbers are saved onto the SIM card, then once she gets a new one, then she won't have them anymore. I would think that she'd be smart enough to write them down somewhere and then reprogram them into the phone. Or maybe her phone got stolen. Or she's just having too much fun and forgot to call.

My mom gets worried really easily and I know its also very easy to forget to make one phone call. Jessica has definitely pulled something similar in the past, but I still can't help worrying about her.

I know she'll turn up online in a couple days and get mad at us for freaking out. Then my mom will be so relieved that she'll have to yell at Jessica again and then we can stop worrying. Until then I'll be checking my cellphone obsessively or trying to ignore my family.