Besides musing on the distasteful news of my brother’s university enjoying a fluke football win against my alma mater that happened while I was unconscious (which, I contend, should somehow diminish its significance), I hadn’t planned on doing much today. Yesterday had already been eventful enough: with Carolyn I went to the gargantuan Book [...]
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“WE LOST TO WASHINGTON. 13-16. I TURNED MY COMPUTER JUST TO EMAIL YOU. OMG I’M SO ****** PISSED. – Well that is an embarrassing thing to wake up to on a Sunday morning. When Matthew starts to crow about it I’m going to [...] “How’s my class?” Melissa asked when I walked in. “Last week they told me that they made you mad.” I didn’t remember being upset, but the office probably remembered Nana’s whirlwind return yesterday, steaming mad and muttering invectives in Chinese under her breath. The episode ended with her curt dismissal of a [...] You’d think that having a typhoon pen me up in my room all day would at least get me started on that book, but nope, I have no idea how to actually write fiction. “But Andrew, you majored in comparative literature!” people sometimes say when I tell them of my difficulties with creative writing. [...] Typhoon Koppu hit Shenzhen last night and it’s still hanging around – from my window I can see the Chinese flag whipping madly in the wind, and the school’s basketball court beneath it is soaked in rain and puddles. With my door and windows shuddering like ax murderers were assaulting them all night, it [...] Uh, I think there’s a typhoon outside. Tap tap tap tap. I sit in the English office, typing up a curriculum spreadsheet. Tap tap tap tap. Giggle giggle. I glance up. A girl passing by looks startled to see me through the door frame. “Oh, Ahn-juh!” she squeaks. I smile at her. “Hi,” I offer. Shriek! Scamper. Gone. …Huh. [...] I know that this is something I could be yelled at for, but I’m still having some difficulty finding food on weekends. The school cafeteria closes and I haven’t yet found enough kitchen utensils to be able to cook for myself (I need a bucket to put dirty dishes in…and then I suppose I [...] I installed a tool last week that will keep track of blog metrics such as how many visits I get in a day, which posts are the most popular, and the like. I have not found much practical use for it, but it’s been fun to obsess over. So far, in the six [...] Even from the very beginning of our trip in Beijing over a month ago, I’ve had a distinctly different experience as an expat than the other Americans in the CTLC program. Obviously the glaring difference was that among all of us, I’m the only one who shares the skin color of the native Chinese [...] |
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