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The days keep passing and I still haven’t written down what the 798 art district was like yet, or about the expat club I went to yesterday night…

HA I JUST KILLED A MOSQUITO

…um, anyway, yes I haven’t gotten to those stories yet and I really need to write them down so I can both share with you folks at home and leech them for fiction material later.  I will soon, promise.  There’s also been a bit of advance notice about my job placement in Shenzhen.  It looks pretty good right now, but I won’t speculate on it any more because the school could still reject CTLC’s placement suggestions.  One story from the past had a school delegation come to the contract signing ceremony with flowers to pick up their CTLC teacher, only to drop the bouquets, turn around and leave as soon as they saw the guy was Chinese-American.  So we’ll see what happens.

(That was the first mosquito I’ve killed with my bare hands in China.  There’s a gruesome kill marker on the wall now behind this laptop screen where the bug squish is.  I feel like a macabre kind of Karate Kid.)