I took a trip during our 4 day holiday to Shanghai to see Philippe. I am very used to the drill now; weasel my way out of classes on the day of the flight, search for taxis that seem to never come, miss the bus to the airport, take a ridiculously expensive cab ride to [...]
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Shanghai, The X-Files, and F-ing Delayed Flights
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
earthquake drills: they’re fun AND they make you think
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today we had an earthquake drill mid-way through 3rd period. I knew it was coming, and I was fully prepared, nay, looking forward to it because it would get me out of a healthy chunk of teaching. I was in my cutest 1st grade class (well thats not true, but 2 of my favorite students [...]
Cheerie-a, Cheerie-e, Cheerie-i, Cheeri-o, Cheerie-you
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
China, like America, has national holidays during which people don’t have to work. The biggest holiday we have experienced so far has been Spring Festival, which was basically a month of random stores being closed and us not being able to get our water fixed.
However, unlike America, China makes its citizens “make up” the days [...]
Abolishing Babies, or, The Coldest April Fools’ Day Joke Ever.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So this Tuesday at school, Lee and I get text messages at the same time from our Chinese friend B-Rock that read:
“Hey C, do u know any good hospital and harden doctor for abolishing babies? Maybe ur workmates know it, so check it out with them, please…”
After replying “…what!?” we recieved another, saying:
“I mean aborticide. [...]
“Spring Festival sucks… It’s like 4th of July but gay” or; the anticlimactic return to Wuhan.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today we arrived in Wuhan after a few days in beautiful Shanghai. Our return to China from Thailand was one of reluctance and angst, as we knew the weather was going to be vicious, the people impatient, and the smell of delicious food rare.
We stayed in a hostel called UCool which looked from the outside [...]
Why Thailand is Creepy but Awesome.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My initial reaction to Thailand was one of wonder and curiosity. Look, pad thai! Wow, its hot here! Everyone is so nice! So cheap! And quickly this changed after leaving Bangkok and arriving in Koh Phangnon, an island near Koh Samoi, where they filmed that movie “The Beach”. Koh Phangnon is where the monthly MOON [...]
friends and cakes and tipsy chinese
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Why hello, yall.
Thanks to Lee’s brilliant know-how about firewalls, I can post on blogs once more. Not that I really used to do it that often. I find writing these things tedious at times, cathartic at others, so I guess it will be what it will be.
We leave for Thailand tomorrow morning, I’m pretty much [...]
To the things I did and didn’t do…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I leave the country August 23rd, which is not really that far away and yet it seems like forever. I have been pouring over mandarin books and podcasts only to realize that there are countless ways to say one expression, and yet none of them stay in my memory for more than 10 minutes.
I’m going [...]
What you know about this, son?!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I love everything.
I should be sleeping but this blog thing has me captivated.
