My trip by the numbers
Friday, April 2nd, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | Comments OffI've been meaning to do this for awhile, but haven't got around to it. Here's my China trip by the numbers, just as a point of interest: Days spent in China: 201 Days spent on vacation: 75 Classes taught each week: 15 Hours ...
Home again
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Homesickness, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | 1 Comment »I arrived safely in Chicago yesterday and had some good deep-dish Chicago-style pizza with my dad, stepmom and brothers. Pretty awesome way to arrive in America, I'd say. I'm still processing about everything. It was weird to get dimes ...
The decision I have made
Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Homesickness, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | 1 Comment »The decision I have made has been well-deliberated. The decision I have made has been debated and argued and thought about and meditated on and processed in all ways possible. The decision I have made is to come ...
Today’s ten thousand things
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 Posted in Living in China, Teaching in China, Today's Ten Thousand Things | 5 Comments »- Today, I went to Changde with Nevill (one of the Chinese teachers) to see Avatar. Sadly, they were only playing the dubbed-in-Chinese version, so I didn't understand any of the dialogue. But it was an interesting experience ...
Well I’ll be damned
Sunday, December 27th, 2009 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | 3 Comments »My knitting was delivered to me (for Y20) today by a man I'd never met. Ellie, a member of the hostel staff, came with me and helped me pick it up so I could find the guy alright. ...
Christmas spirit
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Posted in Homesickness, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | 1 Comment »Look what I found at the local bakery last week. I could not resist taking my picture with these girls. I was so happy to see Christmas decorations that I actually giggled out loud while I was looking for my ...
Today’s ten thousand things
Monday, December 7th, 2009 Posted in Homesickness, Living in China, Teaching in China, Today's Ten Thousand Things | 2 Comments »- Before class, one of my students asked me what my Chinese name was. I said it, but told her I didn't know the characters. She tried to write it down, but we couldn't find the character for ...
Foreign culture lessons; new links
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 Posted in Teaching in China | 1 Comment »I've posted a new entry all about my recent-and-future lessons called Foreign culture in the classroom at the Lost Laowai Blog. It's my second post over there - please go check it out! I've also added a few new links ...
No Thanksgiving in small-town China
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Homesickness, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | 1 Comment »I had no formal Thanksgiving this year. Dinner in the cafeteria included potatoes, though, which sort of counts. And I told one of the Chinese teachers, who knew about Thanksgiving, that I was thankful for the opportunity to ...
Another location update
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Posted in Teaching in China | Comments OffQuick additional note: I also updated my Location Map to include my trip to Hanzhong...it's officially the farthest north I've been in China. And I didn't realize just how far north Shanghai was until I just looked at it ...