welp, i'm officially on vacation for the week. i had one class today, from 6:30 till 8:30 earlier tonight. i was antsy the whole time, not really wanting to work. right now, jen, claire, rich, aaron, rod, tammy, and rachelle are on a train to shanghai. clara and i had hot pot at some little cheap place on the street. tomorrow morning, at 7:30, we ( Read more... )

every week, i have two adult intensive classes (hour-long conversation classes) and two sessions of my a5, a mid-level english class for adults. in my a5, i have between three and six people, usually. they told me they wanted to learn vocabulary and to practice listening to english, so it's become a lecture/conversation class about whichever topic ( Read more... )

there's a regular deluge of pictures coming onto my computer the last few days. my computer has become the home for several of my computer-less co-workers, which works out great for me, because that means i get copies of their pictures. last time, i put up some of rachelle's pictures. now i have even more of hers, some of karen's, some of tammy's, ( Read more... )

still no internet in my room. our room is literally one of the last ones not hooked up. this is partially because a few days ago, they gave us a username and password that supposedly would make things work. but they didn't. the guys upstairs are talking about getting wireless, so we're kinda hoping that it'll go through the floor and we'll be able ( Read more... )

now i have a half hour before class. my first adult class. i brought my laptop to school today so i could make use of the wireless connection they have set up here. i'm sitting next to barry, from england, and rhodri, also from england, is teaching. my two classes today are a conversation class and a mid-level adult class ( Read more... )

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i think a lot of people in my life don't know yet that i'm going to china. whoops! maybe i should send out an email or something ( Read more... )

i know i've talked about fake things in china before on here, but each new thing i read about it just kills me and i have to share:)

today, the link comes from boingboing.

"This article is about cheap soya sauce that is being manufactured in the East as an alternative to the original. The 'secret ingrediant' is amino acid syryp, a concoction ( Read more... )

the other night, i did something i've been meaning to do since i got to tennessee. i went to see a local band at a bar:) it was a band troubadour76 recommended, and i met him and his cousin there. troubadour76 is married to celinabot, who i had stupidly forgotten was in minnesota this week ( Read more... )