My parents have come for a visit and are currently staying in Hong Kong. They’ll be visiting Shenzhen this weekend, to see just how their son is eking out his illiterate existence, and maybe even watch a class (those rare hours of the week when Andrew gets to turn the illiteracy tables on his [...]
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Last night in the school cafeteria I chatted with Gong Laoshi, one of the 9th grade science teachers. He speaks English very well, so we were able to have a relatively complicated conversation about genetic testing (I learned the word for “law” from this) and figured out that we were both going to be [...] Last week I got two small, baby turtles from a street vendor. Their names have alternated from “Emeril and Dolce” to “Elmo and Remington” to “Bebop and Rocksteady” (follow the link if you are not of my generation/are Chinese) and are currently “red turtle” and “green turtle.” They are sleepy things, usually sitting [...] One of the biggest complaints of previous Asian-American teachers in China that I have heard of is that we have a relatively difficult time securing extra-legal (to use a euphemism) employment that most other foreign teachers enjoy. That is, because of the technical restrictions on our visas, it is illegal for us to teach [...] I usually see the same guards every time I return home, usually because it’s later at night and only a few of them must have those shifts. By that time they are often not in the guard house attached to the gate, but have pulled a school desk and chair into the courtyard further away [...] Yeah I’m dragging my feet on blog updates…Hong Kong was very fun and interesting; I spent most of my time with William, Kim and Aidan, though I also trekked across the Island and ventured onto the Kowloon side a bit by myself for a day, taking full advantage of the awesome Hong Kong MTR subway [...] I was eating dinner at a fancy Thai restaurant at Coastal City with Kami and Nicole when Tiantian called. “Andrew where are you!” Uh oh. Did I forget another teacher’s banquet? “No, it is okay. There is a box of fruit for Mid-Autumn Festival here for you! It will be on first floor.” Oh, thanks Tiantian! Hours [...] My post titles are getting intentionally stranger and stranger as I think about what would most poetically capture what I want to say. I disclaimed a long time ago that this blog would be an “experimental prose testing ground,” though so far I’ve kept that largely at bay (both for coherency and intellectual property!) But [...] For the handy price of 1000 kuai (about $146 US) I got two musical instruments, a decent guitar and erhu, both at once – making me a musician again, but with new things to learn. Having all but stopped pursuit of the clarinet and piano studies that defined my youth, I think this cements [...] (Is anybody old enough to remember MS-DOS? The command prompt OS that existed before Windows? When doing a report on Microsoft once in grade school I read that Bill Gates actually bought the code for MS-DOS from the guy who wrote it, who had instead called it QDOS. That was literally short [...] |
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