Today’s ten thousand things
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 Posted in 10,000 Things, Living in China, Teaching in China | 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 ...
Today’s ten thousand things
Monday, December 7th, 2009 Posted in 10,000 Things, Homesickness, Living in China, Teaching in China | 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 ...
Today’s ten thousand things
Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in 10,000 Things, Living in China, Travel | Comments Off- I want to design a video game; Grand Theft Auto: Hunan Province. At least, that's what it feels like on the buses. - Man, I hate the buses. - I took my first air-conditioned train to Hanzhong in the Sha'anxi ...
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 ...
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 ...
Photos and location updated; Today’s Ten Thousand Things
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Posted in 10,000 Things, Chinese Culture, Living in China, Teaching in China | 3 Comments »I have updated the photos to include pictures from Changsha, and also, shock of all shocks - Shimen. The weather was actually semi-clear today, and you could see the mountains with the naked eye. It has actually been ...
Today’s Ten Thousand Things
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 Posted in 10,000 Things, Chinese Culture, Living in China, Teaching in China | 7 Comments »Yet another collection of moments and thoughts - I'll write a long post over the weekend detailing my first week of school, but for now... - Every time I tell my students I have 5 brothers, they go BALLISTIC. We're ...
Today’s Ten Thousand Things
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 Posted in 10,000 Things, Chinese Culture, Living in China, Teaching in China | 5 Comments »- I got downtown by myself yesterday and tried to find a Bank of China. The staff of the hotel I stopped at didn't speak English, but I showed them the characters from my increasingly-handy iPod Chinese-English dictionary app, and ...
Today’s Ten Thousand Things
Saturday, August 15th, 2009 Posted in 10,000 Things, Chinese Culture, Teaching in China | 8 Comments »The ten thousand things is a phrase based on a particular thought in Taoist philosophy: "One thing begets 10,000 things." I think this is particularly relevant in several ways; one thing (I'm going to China) begets 10,000 things (plane ...