Today Chris and I successfully made dumplings by ourselves! It was an uber-long enterprise. Taking from when we went out to by flour and fresh veggies at 5 until after 9 when we finally sat down to eat them all- and watch “Battlestar Galactica” (Chris has been skipping and clapping around the apartment all day [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Dumplin’ Makin’
Posted in China, tagged China, cooking, dumplings, food on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Doodley Weekend in Lin Zhou
Posted in China, tagged China, ESL, teaching, University on March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend, four of us foreign teachers went to the neighboring town of Li Zhou for a school thing. Our university was vague about it, but what I do know is that the university has “a relationship” with No. 11 Middle School. What this means for us is whenever the schools feel like it, they [...]
New Home
Posted in China, tagged China, living on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few days ago, Chris and I finally moved into our new apartment. It took several dustings and moppings and then many more days of single trips here and there to move all our stuff. Totally worth the hassle. This apartment is newer, brighter and much, much nicer than our former dismal concrete pit (aside [...]
Cereal! I am boggled!
Posted in China, tagged China, teaching on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good news to report. With our Internet consistently working the past few days and the move to a different, newer, much nicer apartment approaching, an equilibrium has been established. I no longer want to murder all the Doodles.
Having a couple great classes so far this week has also helped. We’re talking about different customs on [...]
The Sheila
Posted in China, tagged China, ESL, teaching, University on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blaaaargh. So it’s been a long time and this is the fault of the Doodles. Our Internet suddenly stopped working last Sunday and only today, today! has it gotten fixed. The reason? Incompetent Doodles who 1) speak descent English won’t listen when you tell them, repeatedly, that the problem is the [...]
Fighting the Doodle System
Posted in China, tagged China, ESL, teaching, University on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris and I went in to speak to Gerald, Ger Bear, Sir Gerald of Idiotdom, this afternoon. Earlier this morning, between my classes, I stopped at his office to make sure he’d be in later to discuss these incredibly shitacular classes we have. He agreed to 4:30 and I allowed myself to hope that something [...]
The Monkey Goes Back to Work
Posted in China, tagged China, ESL, teaching, University on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So we’ve just entered our third week of classes for the semester and it seems all is going pretty well so far, aside from a continuing battle with Gerald, one of the important leaders (so important he is never in his office when I go talk to him) in the foreign language department, also in [...]
Vacation Photos, Round Two
Posted in China, Travel, tagged China, photos, vacation on March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Finally! We now have the last legs for our Spring Festival Holiday up on Snapfish. Whew. We’re not to blame this time- it was the Snapfish’s fault for refusing to upload. Sigh… but Dali and Lijiang are up now. Hope you likey! (Dali was my favorite city).
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