On Sunday night I went to meet up with Dennis, a family friend of Uncle Oen’s. The subway ride over to where he lived was a pretty fun experience – every time I go abroad it always seems like public transportation beats the pants off of that in America! There was of course [...]
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Just woke up. Must shove last things into suitcases and then drag those away. Will tour the Forbidden City with the large group today, then jump into a provided shower and then tango with the Beijing Train Station. They say it’s a pretty crazy place. Will be on the train from [...] I just went for a solitary jaunt through the surrounding Haidian district by myself, trying to reconnoiter the closest subway station. I missed it by a good 700 meters and found a different one – that’s what I get for asking guards and shopkeepers for relative directions as I go (“Excuse me, where’s the [...] Edit: I had finished writing this post very neatly and then lost the second half of it when the “Publish Post” button led me to a 404. I rewrote the second half, but I don’t think it was as good as it was. This coming Tuesday evening we will all leave for Shenzhen, so our time [...] The days keep passing and I still haven’t written down what the 798 art district was like yet, or about the expat club I went to yesterday night… HA I JUST KILLED A MOSQUITO …um, anyway, yes I haven’t gotten to those stories yet and I really need to write them down so I can both share [...] It’s my lunch break and I don’t have long to type, but it’s been a few days since you heard from me and I imagine that if your names together begin with an H and a Y then you might be a bit anxious for a more substantial update – so I’ll just try to [...] Taught a group of juniors (here that means 11-13 year olds) today for the first time. They were incredibly shy and reluctant to join in the activities that we’ve been instructed to prescribe to them. I imagine they aren’t used to the animated chaos of some Western teaching methods – either that, or the icebreaker [...] For the first time today I spoke in Chinese to a local and received the response that I had sought (as opposed to getting a beer instead of the green tea I asked for…that’ll dog me for a while). I didn’t understand what the hell the lady was saying, but it seemed vaguely about [...] I’ve been awake since 3:00 AM on August 2nd, and considering that it’s 8:30 PM August 3rd right now that makes me pretty tired. Most of the time was spent sitting on my ass in a plane, though, with ample time to think and ruminate on the implications of travel. The reality of leaving America finally [...] |
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