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 […]
Ok, so tomorrow I’m getting on a plane to go back to the states to see family and friends, drink tap water and cherry coke, eat real Mexican food, buy conditioner meant for my freakish foreign hair, take bubble baths after eight months of standing showers, freely talk to strangers without having to struggle for […]
We’ve developed a raging addiction to ice cream bars called Magnums. And yes, they do have a sultry female on the packaging shooting a come-hither look. The logo is Desire, 2008. And yes, the size is about what you’d expect from the name. And it’s just funny to say, “ok, I’m going out for some […]
It’s been a pretty eventful week. We got a surprise three day weekend, and decided that if we wanted to move off campus, it would pretty much be our only chance to do it. And we REALLY wanted to get off campus. I don’t recommend living five floors above your office and two above your […]
Ok, first of all, some boring grammar stuff from class. You can skip that if you want to scroll down for the bathroom stories.
Today I had a student come to me to discuss menstrual issues, and another asked for dating advice. Apparently, I’m THAT teacher (menstrual issues: the poor girl was concerned that western people […]
I am a RAGING hypochondriac, and you’d think that being aware of my condition would somewhat alleviate it, but no. I’m the girl who had her roommate drive her to the ER late at night due to swollen lymph nodes that I managed to convince myself were rapidly developing masses which would eventually block my […]
For the most part, I’m pretty calm about living in China, but every once in a while I remember how completely bizarre the whole thing is - for example, it’s just odd that successfully using western union was an occasion for confidence boosting and a genuine sense of accomplishment.
After six months, doing things like that […]
Ok, today was alright. I got done with class and didn’t feel like strangling anybody, which is an improvement over the last couple of days. I went into the monster class armed with a new strategy - I brought a book of short stories by Lu Xun that they had recommended to me last term, […]
The success story:
For lunch, I went to Skyways, which is a German bakery a block away from my house that makes tasty sandwiches. It’s also very nice from a bumbling foreigner perspective, because you fill out a little card (in English), hand it to the cashier along with your 20 RMB, and that’s all there […]