This is my 2 ½…er…3 week update. Yes, that is a long one, but I have been busy and sick. And lazy. The following will have a lot of wrong tenses because I wrote it over the course of a few days and a few new things have happened. Bear with me. I promise to deliver high quality gushi ( Read more... )

Well, I am going to try to muster up a quick post before I head out on my 10 hour train ride to Qingdao. Now I am guessing 90% of the people reading this are wondering what the hell QIngdao is, so heres the short and sweet: Qingdao is a major seaport, naval base, and industrial center. It is also the site of the Tsingtao Brewery which produces beer ( Read more... )

I was going to be sly and update by noon today which would still be the 4th in the US, but alas, I had Chinese hw. I hope everyone had a good one, and still have all their limbs attached ( Read more... )

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I would first like to sincerely apologize to my parents, who must have imagined that the Commies had captured me and taken me to their secret base in Mongolia; but more importantly I would like to apologize to my loyal and dedicated fans (Peter) who rely on my journal as their sole source of entertainment this summer ( Read more... )

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I just spent my first day on the Qinghua Daxue Campus. The plane ride here was quite the journey. I started my day off by getting up Celina's casa (she was nice enough to let me stay in, thanks!) on Sunday at 5:30 am and I got to the dorm Monday at 11:30pm. Of course, following Murphy's Law, I sat next to a baby and her breast-feeding mother on my ( Read more... )