I leave for Thailand tonight. It may be a little rushed making the plane, but my uncle is sure we'll make it in time. I'll be there for only 4 days and 4 nights; the fifth day I'll be spending in Chengdu, in Sichuan province. Still not too entirely sure about what exactly I'm going to do in each city. Here's the rough itinerary ( Read more... )

...if all goes well...

Thailand! 5 days in Bangkok! Transvestite cabaret, here I come!

...I believe this was said by Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, during the Constitutional Convention:

"A standing army is like a tumescent penis--an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure."

Meanwhile, I feel rather nauseated, I'm fairly sure because of the anti-aphrodisiac. Agh.

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When you come to Beijing, beware ( Read more... )

Two days ago, I used "Macavity the Mystery Cat", by T.S. Eliot, in my English class, as an exercise on the rhythm of english language. That is all.

today I went to the Beijing Pop Music festival. It was fun. There were many kinds of people there. They did not sell beer ( Read more... )

Thanks for the ideas, everyone. If you think of any others, please let me know. I plan on trying out most of them; especially once the class gets a little more settled and they stop looking at me like I'm some kind of strange bug ( Read more... )

Thank god, the more advanced classes are much smaller. I would like, however, to share the story that they wrote, on the grounds of it being incoherently amusing. I gave them the first sentence, and they ran away from there.

( There was an old man who lived on Mt. Everest... )

So I've found a job as an English teacher, teaching at Beijing Gongye Zhiye Jishu Xuyuan. That mouthful means approximately absolutely nothing, as far as I have really been able to determine ( Read more... )