Ah, spring seems to have finally come to Anyang. Pineapple, watermelon, and strawberries are at every body’s fruit stand, waiting to be sold. The weather as dry, dusty and windy as ever. Now with the addition of near 80-degree weather.
But the surest indication are the sidewalks. They have exploded with a mishmash of entrepreneurs selling everything [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Spring is here!
Posted in China on April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I Have Something to Tell You…
Posted in China, tagged China, teaching on April 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My Wednesday off was stolen from me when the Foreign Affairs Department kidnapped four of us foreigners to go back to the craptacular hospital in Zhongzhou to get another battery of tests done because, because, because… Chris and I are staying in China for another year.
Yes, I must be a crazy person.
With all the complaining [...]
Cheer Up!
Posted in China, tagged China, University on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re currently winding down our glorious five-day weekend. No festivals this time but an event. An EVENT. All students were given Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday off so everyone could participate in the Sports Day activities held at the illustrious New Campus. Here, as you can see below, they have a proper stadium equipped with a [...]
I Heart New Water Heater
Posted in China, tagged China, living on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A great day!
We finally got our new water heater!
No more electrocutions!
Finally we’re done scampering over to our old, old-basement stink-hole apartment for showers, making ourselves go to the local pool so we could shower there. This took a bit of finagling. Fed up that James kept giving us “maybe next week” answers we (I mean [...]
Luftwaffe
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris and I have a new pet!
In my class on Friday, my students presented me with a ni gu gu. He is a bird made from local black dirt from a neighboring province, Hubei. If you blow into a little hole in his rear feathers a wispy little song emerges from his belly. He now [...]
White Face
Posted in China, tagged China on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m constantly amazed with the amount of students that not only comment, “oh! Your skin so white!” but ask me how it’s so white. “Uh. I was born this way,”I tell them. They’re a disapointed because it’s not because of one of the bajillion whiting creams you can buy here. Ponds even has a line [...]
Sports Day
Posted in China, tagged China, Sports Day, teaching, University on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The past two days have been Sports Day at Anyang Teacher’s College. Students from many of the classes participated in a variety of track and field events from the 5,000 meters to the javelin. To my knowledge, there’s no regular sports teams so Sports Day is as close as they get.
Many of the students were [...]
Spying on the Doodle Kids
Posted in China, tagged China, living on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wandered into the kitchen this afternoon to boil water for tea. Not only is our selection of teas from Yunnan fresh and delicious, gulping a couple liters of it throughout the day wards of the chill that is a permanent feature of The China Experience. The Doodle government has sole control over when the [...]
