Hello and welcome!<\/p>\n
My name is Cissy (pronounced \u201csee see\u201d or yes yes in Spanish) Zhang and I\u2019m writing this as I prepare to embark on the last two legs of my journey to Peru.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m doing this very last minute because I\u2019ve been putting it off for as long as I possibly can. I have never written a blog before. I dislike how vulnerable writing is. No, that\u2019s not the right way to put it. Rather, I\u2019m scared of how vulnerable writing is. I feel I tend to overshare when I write because I cannot physically see my audience and so I cannot gauge reactions in real time. Where are the boundaries? For me, writing means deciding which thoughts deserve to be out there in the world, and which are better kept in my head. To leave these things for anyone to peruse whenever wherever for potentially the rest of time \u2013 because we all know there\u2019s no such thing as deleting something off the internet permanently \u2013 is a terrifying thought. But alas, here we are.<\/p>\n
I could use a pseudonym, but for me personally, that feels dishonest. I need to be accountable for what I put out there. Actually, we need to backtrack here. If I am to be honest, I must let you know the name Cissy doesn\u2019t legally exist anywhere. All my legal documents say Zhiyi Zhang, but that\u2019s a whole other can of worms. Please just call me Cissy. Thanks.<\/p>\n
These days, I don\u2019t know how to introduce myself. I like to think I am more than what I do in school, especially when I\u2019m this <\/em>close to finishing, but I find that it is an easy place to start. I\u2019m studying Sustainable Agriculture in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Musqueam. I genuinely enjoy what I am studying\u2026 for the most part. I was born in Beijing, China, but grew up on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Wyandot (in so called \u201cRichmond Hill, Ontario\u201d). I feel honoured and humbled for the opportunity to come to know Indigeneity in the Andes.<\/p>\n I love writing and mailing letters, though university has kept me so busy I almost never get to do it. I started wushu last September because I always wanted to do a martial art, but I realized I don\u2019t like actually fighting people, so wushu is perfect because it\u2019s a very performance-based one. I love to read (or at least I used to), but I am a slow reader and an even slower writer. I am praying I can keep up with this arts course.<\/p>\n That\u2019s all for now, I think. Jon, I really don\u2019t know what you\u2019re looking for with this intro post. I hope this is satisfactory.<\/p>\n Super excited to land in Lima!! I need a shower so badly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello and welcome! My name is Cissy (pronounced \u201csee see\u201d or yes yes in Spanish) Zhang and I\u2019m writing this as I prepare to embark on the last two legs of my journey to Peru. I\u2019m doing this very last minute because I\u2019ve been putting it off for as long as I possibly can. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cissyperublog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cissyperublog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cissyperublog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cissyperublog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cissyperublog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cissyperublog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cissyperublog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cissyperublog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cissyperublog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cissyperublog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}