Quick update: photos have returned
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in Living in China | 2 Comments »To anyone who has been missing my photos from previous China adventures: mourn no more! My wonderful brother Steve has purchased a Flickr Pro account for me as a graduation gift, and as such, all my photos are back ...
Massive technology fail; taste of home; visiting pals
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Posted in Homesickness, Travel | 2 Comments »I have an enormous apology to extend. Since August 24th or so, I've been in Shimen and have been unable to get my iBook to connect to the internet. The Mail program on the iBook was apparently the ...
Philosophical thoughts, part 1
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Chinese Culture, Homesickness, Living in China | 1 Comment »Since I got back from Suzhou, I've been thinking a lot about my experience in China so far. Many people told me that going to China would change my life. I can already tell that they're right. ...
Today’s ten thousand things
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 Posted in 10,000 Things, Chinese Culture, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | 4 Comments »- For no discernible reason, China has blocked every image of the Mary Poppins chimney-sweeps-on-the-roof scene. I need this image for a lesson and a Google Image search provided more broken images than I've seen in my entire time ...
Suzhou/Shanghai Holiday Extravaganza!
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 Posted in Chinese Culture, Travel | 3 Comments »So last week, I went to Suzhou to visit my dear friend Siobhan, who kindly put me up in her apartment for a long vacation. Suzhou was beautiful. I've uploaded the pictures and put them in two sets: ...
Photos updated; Today’s ten thousand things
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 Posted in 10,000 Things, Chinese Culture, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | 7 Comments »I am on holiday in Suzhou. As such, the updates will be infrequent for the next week or so. I added some more pictures to the Shimen album and the Shimen No. 1 Middle School album (a picture ...
Today’s ten thousand things
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Posted in 10,000 Things, Teaching in China, Travel | 2 Comments »- I'm going to Suzhou tomorrow! Woohoo! - Over QQ, I told another teacher, Denzel, that I was nervous about traveling such a long way to Suzhou. Here is what he said: "nervous to travel such a long way...you ...
Renewed bike bruises; holiday travel plans
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Chinese Culture, Homesickness, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | Comments OffI rode my bike downtown on Monday night - it was great. It didn't take me very much time (about 5 minutes less than walking out to the bus), and it saved me Y1-Y10, depending on if I'd taken ...
Information updates; the roller coaster continues
Sunday, September 20th, 2009 Posted in Chinese Culture, Homesickness, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | 3 Comments »I just spent the past hour or so re-reading all the posts on this blog, and I realized that I raised some issues in earlier posts that I didn't answer. Regarding my delayed flight in Toronto, Air Canada will ...
Lack of allergy; plethora of videos
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Posted in Teaching in China | 2 Comments »Alright, two videos doesn't constitute a plethora, but it was the first thing I could think of that was an antonym to "lack." Anyway, we are 2 days without an allergy reaction. I took some Benadryl yesterday morning, ...