catchup

There’s a lot of stuff to talk about: the Chinese New Year, my trip to Fuzhou, my trip to Malaysia, and a few things that I encountered upon returning to Shenzhen that I’d like to elaborate on. This week I’ll do my best to work on each piece and post them as soon as I can, because my obsessive compulsion to relate my (relatable) life in chronological order is getting in the way of talking about the present when it happens.

As for that present, though, today is the first day of the second school term, and I’m back in a tie at my office desk typing this with three afternoon classes to go. There is a big banner hanging from the school entrance that reads, as far as I am able to figure, <New Semester, New Awakening, New (something)>. I woke up to hear the students marching in the fields again and to see the Chinese flag get raised for the second time. Throughout the duration of the first semester it never got taken down. Not for evenings, for typhoons, or anything.