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I really was on tv.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Well, Friday was the big day - the first time I’ve ever been on tv. I was wrong earlier; it wasn’t really national television. It’s the Jiangsu Province educational network. Anyway, the show consisted of various acts from the large family that is the Jiangsu Ministry of Education (I think). There were twenty performances altogether, [...]

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More Snow and Potty Language

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Hot damn, it wound up snowing. I was in the office this morning and my department leader was talking about how the weather in China was making news in Missouri. That was exciting, because a. I know where Missouri is, as opposed to just about every other place that people mention to me here, and [...]

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Ten Hours for Three Minutes

Monday, January 28, 2008

I’m four days away from a three week vacation, which is absurd to me - I haven’t had this much time off work in my adult life, and I have no idea what I’ll do with all that free time (AHEM. learn Chinese, finally, Miss.). The high point of the Chinese year is coming up [...]

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