And so the last day came and went and I find myself sitting in the Denver airport. Earlier while camping on the ground I saw a white person coming toward me and tried to think of how I knew this person. Then I remembered there were white people everywhere. Turns out he was going to… Read More 千言和万语
I went through my last classes a week ago, telling my students what I will be doing and where I’ll be going after I leave them behind. They were a little sad, as was I, and the word ‘bittersweet’ was the one I chose for illustrating my feelings about leaving. In truth, it is nice… Read More Landslide
I feel like I’ve had it happen before, the clock running down, the last classes approaching, the impending arrival of summer and the freedom that it brings. Yet this year is different, as I will be leaving China now. I’m still in the process of sorting all of that out. Walking home the other day… Read More Walk Into Splintered Sunlight
So my final days in Beijing come to a close tonight as we board the night train to Wuhan to meet up with Toto. So excited! Wrapped up my time here with a visit to the Summer Palace on Lake Kunming. The royals would move here to escape the summer’s heat in days of old. … Read More Cindy – China Post 2 Moving on
Special thanks to Zak for allowing me to guest post on his travel blog. I am in day 7, China. What an experience! Last weekend, Zak and I took a bullet train (a first for me) to the coastal city of Qingdao. This city was inhabited by a large German community in the early 1900’s… Read More Cindy in China
You can thank the Chinese, and I will use them as a convenient excuse as to why I have not been present on the blog for months. The government here, exalted and wise, hath decreed that wordpress and all associated blogs are forthwith to be stricken from the cyber-domain of the People’s Republic. The positive… Read More Emerging From Winter
So after repeated requests from my mom and brother, I find myself writing an entry in this blog from an internet cafe in Saigon. Let me just warn you: 1. The appeal of being a blogger has always been lost on me. 2. I don’t do well sitting at a computer for long stretches of… Read More I’m not feeling clever and Zak would just make fun of me anyway
The program functions in a manner that keeps us busy about 6 hours a day, every day of the week, and as such, coupled with the slow going of the internet, I will admit to being a little lacking in my efforts for speedy updates. That said, we have kept very active in our free… Read More Busy busy busy
“Beijing welcomes you”–that’s the translation, and it’ll have to pass for now without any of the tonal marks that denote how to pronounce the word. It also serves as the slogan for next year’s summer Olympics, for which evidence litters the city. It has been a lot of fun to try out the language and… Read More Beijing Huanying Ni!
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