My story

 So I can't believe I'm writing these words BUT I AM GOING TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025!! There's so much to talk about, I've been cubing since like 6th grade and I went to my first competition in 2015 and so I've been following pretty much every world championship along with national championship and watching YouTubers vlogs there and just being so jealous at how insane the words venues are and how many events go on and how just the entire community gets together. Childhood me would be so happy and proud knowing that I made it, its literally a childhood dream come true.  Now I'm not competing because I only knew I'd be in Seattle this summer in February, and the registration opened way before that and the 2,000 competitor limit hits like the same day it opens. So I settled with the spectator badge and its legit perfectly fine. It's honestly crazy how its in Seattle the exact year that I'm interning here like I remember when I realized randomly one da...

  So this summer has another China trip, where I took my finals early so I could have as much time as I could. Me and my sister basically have 2 weeks there after factoring out travel days, which is honestly enough time, as 3 weeks last year felt a bit long though I am not complaining I definitely prefer 3 weeks over 2 weeks. However, with 2 weeks in Hohhot, our hometown, I was NOT EXPECTING my sister to just message me this randomly while cramming and studying for my early finals: I'm going to ChengDu, SiChuan, China, along with my sister without my mom or any relatives, where I did not agree to it. I've dreamed of going to ChongQing for so long it is pretty high up there in the bucket list and ChengDu is probably 2nd place right after it, so obviously I want to go but at first bro I was so confused and I was not supportive because of how cooked it is just us 2 going to ChengDu like our reading skills are pretty mid and were so cooked like we are foreigners u need to have some...