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 […]
A while back, three students came running into my class five or six minutes late. Technically, they’re not allowed in the classroom after the bell rings, but these three had never been late before, always did their homework, and generally never made me angry. Plus, we were reviewing for an exam, and five minutes didn’t […]
The torch came through Nanjing today, practically right outside my school. The powers that be dictated that class would remain in session, which was a joke - I trotted down to my 10:00 to find four unhappy looking students in a class of twenty-five. Chris was out of class, though, and he got pictures, […]
First of all, clearly, I’m still alive. It was weird being on the other end of that social phonemenon that causes people to make an instant connection between a catastrophe and the one person they know anywhere remotely near it. I was really touched by the concern, but WOW is Sichuan a long way away […]