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Most of the public facilities in China are B.Y.O.t.p. but then again, most of the crappers here have people to clean them on a regular basis.

Thanks to the great fire wall of China I can no longer use photobucket for image hosting. A well such as life.

I still have a lot of visuals from my vacation that I have not shared yet but I have not uploaded many of them yet. So on a more recent note here are a few from lunch today ( right here )

I have been hanging out with some Korean folks recently and oddly I feel this is going to be a huge boost to my Chinese. They are at the university to study Chinese and their English is pretty much for crap, so we pretty much only talk in Chinese, cause I have NO IDEA how to speak Korean. It works out well because we all really want to improve our ( Read more... )

Shout out to alfaspider!

Have you seen this one yet? Interested in it at all?


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During my evaluations I ask each student if they want an English name. I am not all about colonizing everyone, but it sure makes it easier for me to remember everyone's name if they are easy for me to pronounce in the first place, thus making classroom dynamics a lot smoother. If they want to use an English name I ask them to pick a name to use ( Read more... )

Yesterday, March 8th was women's day in China and from here on out whenever anyone mentions women's day I will remember today.....ahem...sooo glad it's over :)

Now, it's just after midnight and I have wonderful news:

victorvenezuela has saved my Peace Corps application for the 5 day deadline of death....Yippiee! I am ecstatic ( Read more... )

one of my students just called me to say that she has not been in my class yet bust wants to meet with me tomorrow to discuss her taking the final exam and not coming to any of my classes...WHAT! i told her that it would be impossible for her to pass my final if she did not come to any of my classes because my final is a presentation, NOT WRITTEN, ( Read more... )

This morning, like JUST NOW....I got the worst email EVER! It's like this:

Unfortunately, we cannot accept the fingerprint cards the way that they are ( Read more... )