So the Chinese know how to party.
Yesterday afternoon, the university’s foreign language department hosted a banquet. Now, when I heard banquet, I pictured a long buffet table of semi-edible food and then two hours of speeches by important leaders in the department. Snoozefest- so I thought.
There were well over 50 people there, some faces I [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Party Like the Chinese!
Posted in China, tagged China, living on December 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A Very Doodle Christmas
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More photos, more photos!
Go to Chris’s group on Snapfish to see a few Christmas pics of us in Doodleland.
The password is chinaphotos.
Happy viewing!
Class is Over!
Posted in China, tagged China, Christmas, ESL, teaching on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wuhoo! I’m done with exams for the semester!
Most of them went surprisingly well. Most of the +270 students chose to perform skits in group of 3-6 people and many of them were quiet good. They ranged from dialogues about one of the topics we discussed in class (food, travel, technology, etc) to actual stories [...]
TWO PAPERS!
Posted in China, tagged China, living on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Three months Chris and I have been in Anyang and three months, no one has been blatantly mean to us. Frustrating, incomprehensible, rude yes. But not mean. Until last night.
Bundled up in our scarves and down coats, we plodded ten minutes to the new stand where I get my China Daily newspapers. As it was after [...]
Jingle Bells
Posted in China, tagged China, Christmas, ESL, songs, teaching on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For our last week of classes, Chris and I thought it’d be fun to teach our students Christmas songs. He was hard at work learning hits such as Jingles Bells, Deck the Halls, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Silent Night, I Saw Three Ships, and 12 Days of Christmas.
We combined the classes that we could and [...]
My Heart Will Go On
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Christmas, ESL on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just thought I’d brag to y’all that my class just serenaded me with a pretty good version of Titanic Girl’s hit song, “My Heart Will Go On.”
(This song is played everywhere like it’s Britney Spears latest triumph).
This was, of course, after I serenaded them with “Jingle Bells,” “Deck the Halls,” and “I [...]
Doodle Wine
Posted in China, tagged China, living, Wine on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK. So I’ve had this problem since arriving here: finding decent wine. The Chinese wine is cough syrup swill- the smell alone will burn your nose hairs off- so I’ve been spending at least $20 pretty good imported Australian Wine- the cheapest bottle at the local imported wine shop where most of the [...]
Giant Gob of Noodles
Posted in Adventures, China, tagged China, cooking, food, living, noodles on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Chinese noodles have perplexed Chris and me since we first tried to prepare them. Mouth drooling in anticipation, we boiled, strained, ready to eat and…huh?
One giant gob of noodles.
Every single one of them had congealed into a hard to eat mass. Adding the oily vegetables helped loosen a couple but there was [...]
Santa Claus is Coming to Doodleland!
Posted in China, tagged China, Christmas on December 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was doing fine. Just fine. And then this week, I decided to talk about Christmas in class, frankly because I didn’t feel like planning anything else, this being the second to last week of class before exams.
By my last class on Monday I had started to feel that feeling… that yearning for Christmas. Where [...]
