learned a new character last night in my frenzied quest not to go to sleep at all costs. beng! it means "pump," and it's a really cool character with water under a rock, basically. i love it:) I'm slated to interview this gz based band, pump, which was founded by the supposed "granddaddy of rock 'n' roll/punk" in china. all of china, according ( Read more... )

today was entirely surreal for a variety of reasons. we spent all of yesterday (in my mind) at a writer's meeting for that's...remind me never to attend a writer's meeting again. it's sitting around with a bunch of brits talking about the best brand of baijiu (an extremely strong liquor) and the boot wearing trend in gz. interesting. yawn. and ( Read more... )

woo. after staying in the house for quite a while yesterday, i decided that i should probably go and do something...well, outside. so i told myself that i would reenact saturday's getting lost in the city episode, only this time, i'd go solo. it turned out to be so much fun!!! i wandered down the street, past the park n shop, walked for another ( Read more... )

so after buying some nifty pens from the new stationery shop down the street (i ADORE cheesy chinese stationery, i have to say), i settled in to "study" chinese and watch love actually for our movie screening tomorrow. i'm glad i watched it tonight because i bawled like a baby throughout the entire movie, one that i'd seen before, no less. ai ya ( Read more... )

so i didn't end up going to macau this weekend, but it turned out to be a busy one anyway, so i'm sort of happy that we stayed. on friday, after finding a tailor, practicing my cantonese with her, and designing my own sweater (yay!), lion (yes, her name is lion) and i went to this awesome japanese restaurant where you pay 38 RMB and eat as much as ( Read more... )

just an interesting phenomenon ( Read more... )

so I've come up with a system to combat tardiness. every class, i start off teaching my students a christmas carol (jingle bells last week, rudolph the red nosed reindeer this week) for the first five minutes to get their blood flowing, and then i shut the door and "don't allow" any students to enter class after that. argh. as it so happens (and ( Read more... )

the cold, that is. it is SO cold over here. dee, you should feel bad you didn't stick more winter clothes into that suitcase you, ma, and daddy sent over with jiujiu...:-P all that underwear is doing me absolutely no good now! as it is, because i have very little winter clothing, i've been wearing the same sweatshirts for days on end. my ( Read more... )

apologies for the heavily religious material in this entry--lots to think about ( Read more... )

Some of you have pointed out that my journal is heavily Luke-based. Looking back on entries, it is. Dammit. Hence, I will try one entry without using his name. The aforementioned doesn't count ( Read more... )