One good thing about having a birthday far, far away from home is that if it’s just far away enough, your one day of celebration will turn into two, one for each hemisphere!
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After five grueling classes, I’m finished being a teacher in China. Some nice things kids said to me today: “I will not forget you.” “You will become a doctor, but I think you should become a teacher.” “Your shirt is ugly.” By the end of the school day I was back in the English office scribbling away madly, filling out [...] It is indeed my last week of teaching classes here. While still not officially confirmed, I’ve heard so from enough unofficial teachers and administrators that I’m going with it. The reason for the early ending is that my students are all Junior 3s, and are all preparing for their high school entrance examinations. From what I [...] I just haven’t been able to get myself to write much recently. Even in my book. I guess we’ll call that one a failure, everybody. I do have a month or so left, though, and not much to do with it. This is my last week of teaching. I found that out when the [...] My dad sent me a video interview that Charlie Rose did of Lee Kuan Yew, the Singaporean statesman. Charlie Rose: I met a Chinese delegation recently who’s here, in the last couple of weeks, and spoke to a very important member of the government – not the highest level, but still highly important – and asked [...] …in Los Angeles, “Second Look” day for prospective USC Keck medical students happened just a few hours ago. Special correspondent Adnin Z. covered the event, during which future classmates arrived in dress attire to hobnob with faculty professors in the school tour and with each other in the bar tour later that evening. [...] Yesterday I went with Niko to get measured for a suit. We wound around the Dongmen markets for such a long time that I got confused; hopefully I’ll be able to find the place again on my own. Dongmen is a crazy place; my Hong Kong aunt had warned my mother that I [...] In the Malaysia post I talked about China’s racial homogeneity and how it is a far more definitive element of the Chinese identity than most people realize. After 6000 years of inexorably assimilating minority tribes and even conquering outsiders (the Mongols and Manchurians) into the Han culture, the Children of the Yellow Emperor all harbor [...] “不好意思，我又把我的钥匙留在房子里面。” I think that’s right. Is it? It’s what I plan on saying to the groundskeeper who lives on the floor below me when I return home tonight, because I need to get back into my room. After closing the door and fishing through my pockets, I realized belatedly that I left [...] Only thirty minutes ago, Dad emailed me and my brother to tell us that he and Mom had been with Suzanne when she passed away an hour earlier. What had I been doing while they were sitting by her hospital bed? Chatting with a friend on the Internet, then putting my laptop into [...] |
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