Chris and I will be leaving for Kunming the capital of Yunnan in just a few hours. Wuhoo! Three weeks of exploring southwestern China, a region of mountains, lakes, delicious food, teas and home to half of China’s fifty-odd ethnic groups. I doubt I’ll be keeping up the blog but in February, I’ll post pics and [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Happy New Year!
Posted in China, Travel, tagged China, Travel on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Singing for the Doodles
Posted in Adventures, tagged China, singing, teaching on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The doodles are weird. They have a bizarre fixation/love of singing that manifests itself in the strangest ways. The first clue should have been the widespread popularity of the KTV (karaoke), but I missed that and so was not at all prepared when most of my classes asked me to sing a song on the [...]
Attack of the Bai Jiu
Posted in China, tagged China, living, teaching on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the…eight hundreth time the Chinese have done this to me: gotten me drunk by 2 in the afternoon.
As were most of the times before, this was a school function. Me, Chris and Robert were taken to a middle school in a neighboring city because our university is “building a relationship with” this [...]
CrackCrackCrack
Posted in China, tagged China, living, Spring Festival, wedding on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It started around 9:40 this morning. The BOOM BOOM BOOM and CrackCrackCrackCrack of firecrackers and other loud, explosive objects right outside my front window. By the third round, I was getting a headache. Peering out the window, I saw first one boy than a group of five or so boys, not the teenage, school-cutting delinquents [...]
I Love Spaghetti!
Posted in China on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday, Robert, Chris and myself took a train Xinxiang, a population 1 million town an hour train ride from Anyang. The objective: collect Robert’s lovely girlfriend Cheryl and spaghetti!
The train ride there was awful. Think of all the people crammed into the train during rush hour are crunching on peanuts, pistachios and oranges, leaving the [...]
