Also, today Chris and I went to Suguo to buy water, and I glanced at a Chinese newspaper, and for the first time ever I could actually read all of the headline. It said “太空 你好 !” [tai4 kong1 ni3 hao3], and it means, “Hello, Space!” I realize that this may not be need-to-know information [...]
This probably isn’t going to be very interesting for anyone but family, but Chris and I went for a walk and took some pictures of our neighborhood. I was waving my camera around and indiscriminantly clicking, so some of them are a little blurry, but here are the highlights.
Here’s our building. I guess it doesn’t [...]
Our apartment building just got a shiny new silver gate. Gates were the bane of our existence while we lived on campus - if memory serves me correctly, there were at least eighteen that had to be hopped, several eyeless, soulless ferrymen who had to be paid off with special silver coins emblazoned with the [...]
1. These were the blurbs on the backs of books I was processing at the library. I really apologize for not being able to cite authors, but I didn’t include it in the draft I wrote for myself to treasure them forever (and I’m too lazy to hunt them up online, although it should be [...]
It’s almost time for Mid-Autumn Festival (I think it’s officially on the 14th of September). As far as I can tell, Mid-Autumn Festival is the Thanksgiving to Spring Festival’s Christmas - it’s centered around a big family dinner, and people don’t go insane over it, they just have a good time. It’s low key and [...]