Last night, sometime before 7:00, I was just going about my business, went to wash my hands and instead of a spray of water, there was this nasty gurgle gurgle, like Frankenstein wheezing, coming from the tap.
Oh, no. Checked the kitchen sink, the shower, the toilet again and all wheezed. No water.
This has happened a [...]
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Will Work for Water
Posted in China, tagged China, living on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New Look
Posted in China, tagged China, living on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Me in my new glasses and haircut! Gorgeous!
Originally uploaded by a little coffee
Ta daaaaaaaa!
I have my new glasses! Picking them up was a breeze compared to the process of trying to choose the frames and get the correct prescription.
First, I had to get through the phone call telling me they were ready for pick [...]
Welcome to Shaolin!
Posted in China, Travel, tagged China, Shaolin temple, Travel on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
welcome
Originally uploaded by a little coffee
Chris and I made it pack safe and sound to Anyang from the Shaolin Temple. With a frigid welcome by a Siberian winds, too!
After looking through the few pictures I took, my suspicions were confirmed. I am templed out. (Nearly all the pictures inside the temple Chris took). After you’ve [...]
Shaolin Si
Posted in China, Travel, tagged China, Shaolin temple, Travel on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weeee! Chris and I are headed to the Shaolin Temple for the weekend to check out the famous kung-fu monks we’ve been hearing so much about. The temple is also surrounded by mountains, which gives us a much needed break from the flat concrete and smoggy haze of Anyang. Now, if we can manage to [...]
Swine Flu Panic!
Posted in China, tagged China, living on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Swine flu panic has hit Anyang. Actually it hit months ago before there was a case in Hong Kong. It came up repeatedly those last months of the Spring semester, students asking, "you heard of the H 1 N 1? What do you think of this?" To which I replied, nonchalantly, "Eh. You’re all young. [...]
Hot Pot Lunch
Posted in China, tagged China, food, living on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris and me having hot pot for lunch
Originally uploaded by Christina Brandon
Mmmmmm… I love me a good hot pot!
Hot pot can be tricky if you don’t have a solid handle on food vocab, which none of us do. Here’s how it all works:
You get a pot (either one big one that the group shares [...]
Doodling at the Optometrist
Posted in China, tagged China, living on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I armed myself with my Chinese phrase book and Chris and boldly walked over to the eyeglass counter in the local shopping mall. I’ve been wanting a new pair of eyeglasses for months because one of my lenses is super scratched and, after more than two years, I just wanted a new pair. I [...]
Baby-Making and Booties
Posted in China, feminism, teaching, tagged China, living, teaching on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I was leaving my art class Wednesday afternoon, one of the students stopped me. “Teacher! Teacher! I have this. My mother made it for you.”
From her bag, she produced a pair of knitted pink baby booties.
Disbelief sent me into instant giggles. I held the little things, so beautifully made I wished they were bigger [...]
“Twilight”, Bill Clinton, and the “History of Western Philosophy”
Posted in China, tagged China, living on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Robert called us on Monday with news that some man had set up a little book shop on a sidewalk on campus and that, randomly, some of them were English books. "I don’t know, they just turn up sometimes," he said. The school probably didn’t even know he was coming.
We skipped over and scurried around [...]
“Maybe… what exactly do you want me to do?”
Posted in China, tagged China, living, teaching on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning, on our second to last day of vacation, Chris and I pulled ourselves out of bed early to go do… something. We weren’t exactly sure what. Since the phone call last night, Chris and I had been dreading this and we didn’t even know what exactly “this” was.
A couple days ago, Sir Jimbo [...]
