NaNoWriMo is slow trudging. I keep finding that I have more and more ideas for what I want to write, but I feel limited by where I am in the story right now. Actually, I feel constrained by the concept of plot entirely – as if what I want to write isn’t what [...]
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I went to play badminton at the school courts today. Whenever class finishes, the back yard of Yucai Third Middle becomes a teeming crowd of basketball players (mostly boys), joggers on the track (mostly girls), and badminton players (mostly teachers). On the way to the badminton court I even saw a few people [...] 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 [...] I can’t really sleep (I think I drank too much tea) so here’s one post for you. Teaching a foreign language has been an interesting challenge for me, since I’m the kind of arsehole who has trouble keeping my syllables down. A friend once affectionately (euphemistically, I thought) said “you talk just like you write!” [...] 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 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 [...] (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 [...] The writing project is going very well, even though I still haven’t actually gotten around to bashing any of it out. It takes an hour to get to Chinese classes in Futian using the combination of Bus 72 and Line 1 of the Shenzhen Metro, and I use the time to sit there and [...] “How’s my class?” Melissa asked when I walked in. “Last week they told me that they made you mad.” I didn’t remember being upset, but the office probably remembered Nana’s whirlwind return yesterday, steaming mad and muttering invectives in Chinese under her breath. The episode ended with her curt dismissal of a [...] |
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