Near the end of the two-and-a-half-hour lunchtime every day, the students here always hijack the school PA system to blast pop music throughout the rafters and courtyards. The teachers don’t seem to mind, though after my lesson on music I’m always a little paranoid about which songs they play might have come from me. [...]
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Whenever I come back to Shenzhen from Hong Kong I stop by a magazine stand to pick up some English reading to while away the time spent changing subway/train lines and standing in line in customs. My preferences: GQ and Wired. But it has to be an American – not British – edition [...] 1) Wait for grandma to leave hong kong (done) This blog isn’t dead, I promise. The combination of dead laptop (which makes it inconvenient to come here to the office to post) and additional writing work from NaNoWriMo just crowded out the time it took to write magnum opus posts all the time – and while I could twitter away various opinions and [...] I don’t really understand how it gets so cold here. I had reasonably assumed that since I was going to be south of Mexico, it would pretty much stay at the toasty 80-90 degree Fahrenheit temperature it was up until last week. The plummet into the low 50s happened over literally two days! Before [...] Hoo, it suddenly became chillier than I expected Shenzhen could get. Currently it’s a nice 55 degrees Fahrenheit, which of course is balmy for back home in Washington, but then I’m becoming less used to those temperatures ever since I left home for Los Angeles. It’s the curse of the well-traveled: people from [...] My laptop’s power adapter kicked the bucket yesterday. When I got back from Hong Kong and plugged it in, it started sparking and smelled like burnt silicon. I disconnected it before it could erupt in flames but as of now, I can’t recharge my laptop so postings and word from me will get [...] I have been wanting to watch television in Mandarin for a while so that I could improve my vocabulary, but the news isn’t suitable (the words are too hard; I can’t imagine translating ‘bilateral trade negotiations’ on my iTouch and feeling very much accomplished) and the Chinese soaps I find on TV are too silly [...] When he was here, Dad asked me if I had made any good dude pals who I could chum around with. No, I told him a little regretfully, not yet. Most of the young male teachers play basketball after class, but I still haven’t gotten to joining them. A plethora of reasons [...] Why hasn’t anybody else thought of that pun before? My parents returned to the States on Saturday, which is good because I think they were getting tired of traveling and also because their Internet visits generate the majority of this blog’s traffic volume. I was getting kind of sad seeing a flat line of single [...] |
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