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I was eating dinner at a fancy Thai restaurant at Coastal City with Kami and Nicole when Tiantian called. “Andrew where are you!” Uh oh. Did I forget another teacher’s banquet? “No, it is okay. There is a box of fruit for Mid-Autumn Festival here for you! It will be on first floor.” Oh, thanks Tiantian! Hours [...] “Of course I think it is very important for young people to know about history,” said Wang Laoshi. The four of us from the English Department were clustered together again at the lunch bench in the teacher’s canteen, and after somehow getting on the subject of family trees (”Family tree is jiapu! Say [...] My post titles are getting intentionally stranger and stranger as I think about what would most poetically capture what I want to say. I disclaimed a long time ago that this blog would be an “experimental prose testing ground,” though so far I’ve kept that largely at bay (both for coherency and intellectual property!) But [...] For the handy price of 1000 kuai (about $146 US) I got two musical instruments, a decent guitar and erhu, both at once – making me a musician again, but with new things to learn. Having all but stopped pursuit of the clarinet and piano studies that defined my youth, I think this cements [...] (Is anybody old enough to remember MS-DOS? The command prompt OS that existed before Windows? When doing a report on Microsoft once in grade school I read that Bill Gates actually bought the code for MS-DOS from the guy who wrote it, who had instead called it QDOS. That was literally short [...] I just had a phone conversation with my grandma and I am psyched about it. Explication: she doesn’t speak English; I’ve never spoken much Chinese. She lives in China; I only just got here. She is the telephone grandma whose voice you come to love through the receiver of a handset, and [...] The writing project is going very well, even though I still haven’t actually gotten around to bashing any of it out. It takes an hour to get to Chinese classes in Futian using the combination of Bus 72 and Line 1 of the Shenzhen Metro, and I use the time to sit there and [...] Between class periods where I pretend to be a teacher, I occasionally go back to being a student. Success with Chinese, Chapter 12: Shopping at the Market. English definition: vegetables, greens Blogged out for a bit. I’m just taking things as they come and going along with the flow…it’s nice. I’ll start writing again in a few days or whenever the mood strikes me again. For now, I want to try to focus on just living and studying and practicing and such. I was sitting on the bus and quietly gazing out the window. Because it makes a stop practically twice a minute, the 72 takes a half hour just to get to the subway station, but I trust that other salaryworkers riding with me have found the most efficient way to get there. Still, [...] |
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