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 [...]
YES, vacation. It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday night, and I’m not beginning to worry about preparing for classes on Sunday, or about trying to get to bed at a reasonable hour so that I don’t completely throw off my sleeping schedule. In fact, I went to bed at eight o’clock this morning, after drinking [...]