Wow my apologies to you, and go fuck yourselves Mother Russia.

Also, twice I went outside with my camera without first loading an SD card. I don’t think I got amazing pictures, but I’ll never know since my camera doesn’t warn you if you don’t have an SD card loaded.

The funny thing is, I didn’t really realize what I had lost until much, much later. I had pictures of China on the precipice of dramatic, historic change. And I was there at a moment where they had disavowed Mao’s Cultural Revolution and there were halting attempts at being more open, attempts that would end less than a year after I was there. Those pictures would be so awesome to see.

Yup that’s what happened to me, someone stole my suitcase out of the Hong Kong airport. Lost the camera too and all the gifts I got my family. It’s the photos I miss the most, my mom didn’t care about the gifts and I managed to stuff a few in mu carry on so it wasn’t a total loss.