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Five weeks ago, my co-workers started asking me where I would go for the Lunar New Year vacation. “Will you go back to America to celebrate with your family?” they asked. “Uh, no, I’m going to Fuzhou to see my grandmother,” I replied. “Ah,” they all nodded appreciatively. Wait, I wanted to clarify, [...] Returned from Fuzhou yesterday. Am going to Malaysia tomorrow. Both were/will be with family. It’s travel, so I haven’t been able to update this like I wanted to, but I promise that soon I’ll provide at least some kind of relative background on these two places and their significance. It’s almost the (lunar) [...] Having two weeks off before I begin traveling around China to see family is nice in that without morning classes to worry about I can get out of my corner of Shenzhen and make sure I’ve actually become familiar with this place and how it works. They say Shenzhen doesn’t have “culture,” but surely [...] After my last class of the morning I decided to go exploring. Heck, it’s a nice sunny day and I need to get out. An easy option was to look around the Sea World area, a few miles south of my neighborhood. As all Shenzhen expats know by now, our Sea World does not [...] My writing project didn’t end with NaNoWriMo, but then it hardly began with it, either. Every time I write a sentence down, I go back and hack away at the rest of it until I remember that the rest of my plot is in shambles anyway and I should probably fix that first. [...] Whoa, so i hadn’t even realized when leaving for the teacher’s party (which ended up being in Longgang District, an almost two hour drive across Shenzhen) that it was December 31st! So I may have missed my own New Year’s (though details of how that went down soon to come), but even though I [...] To continue the story of the last post would mean that I have to skip ahead of telling the story of my actual Christmas spent in Hong Kong in the pleasant company of family there. For making you feel at home in the wintertime of a country that ostensibly doesn’t celebrate Christmas, there’s nothing [...] At almost the eleventh hour the Shenzhen Education Bureau – that is, that peculiar section of the Shenzhen municipal government that is “responsible” for us in the way an insurance agent is “responsible” for your medical bills – has decided to throw us a Christmas party after all. Magnanimous! Us “foreign expert” Americans+Assorted British Commonwealthers [...] 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 [...] |
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