It’s been a busy month, guys, from planning a visa run and planning a trip home to planning what to wear to Boyfriend’s first fight and planning Thanksgiving dinner. Now that all of that is over with, I can tell you what happened!

• For my next visa run, I’m going to Singapore! I found a hella cheap ticket from Tianjin, but unfortunately the price went way, way up before I could buy it. I should have planned to go somewhere else, but by then, I had decided on going to Singapore. So I bought a more expensive ticket … on Singapore Air! Did you know Singapore is a 6.5-hour flight from Beijing? I could fly to from CLT to SFO in 6.5 hours. That’s a lot of luxury-flying-on-Singapore-Air time.
• I’m going home for Spring Festival! This will be the first Spring Festival since I moved to China where I actually do the Chinese thing and go home.
• Boyfriend is an undefeated boxing champion! I had to pay megabucks and dress up all nice just to be able to see him fight. And because he was the eighth match of the night (out of 11), there was a lot of time spent being close to tears at the thought of him getting potentially mauled by a tiger in front of 450 people. Alas, everything turned out OK (and even better because he won!). And he was so good, he didn’t get beaten up! Here he is in his first fight ever, in Communist red:

• And finally: We are celebrating Thanksgiving early this year! Because I’m going to Singapore next weekend, we have to have dinner tomorrow. It will be the first time several of our friends have ever seen a whole turkey before. I will also be the only American.