The atmosphere is weird here. Carrefour is shut down because all the people are upset at the French olympic committee guy. I passed by with two other Americans and we saw that it was shut down and there were police everywhere, posters in Chinese and a Chinese flag draped across the windows; we stopped and wondered what was going on, then several ( Read more... )

In preparation of you guys visiting, I told my Wednesday classes about you and about Chinese immigration today. They really liked it -- I'm astounded by how much they liked it, everyone was intently listening to this -- so maybe you can use some of this. -- Did I tell you, the speech is for Thursday afternoon at 2? So if we're going to leave ( Read more... )

lol that last post totally went in a loop with the smiles. that wasn't done on purpose, I swear.

In a sort of interesting way, this week is going much better. There was a book Ohad read to me once, called Badulinah, which was basically about the phrase: if you smile at the world, it will smile back at you. So, I'm still not sold on Qingdao, but I guess I was frowning all last week. PMS is overused as an excuse to be bitchy, but, I always find ( Read more... )

Accessing Livejournal through my proxy right now. It's incredibly slow, so I'm just going to make one super post. Recently got the idea that I should keep a journal on my experience in China. So, here goes (very, very long ( Read more... )

fantastic..because of Paul's skillful computer wizardry, I can now get on to livejournal, wikipedia, and youtube... thanks dude!

Leaving for China in a week and a day

seems like I'm always leaving. will miss my sister and the puppy :/

well, I feel like I may as well post an entry to celebrate a bit ( Read more... )

am now 24 -- which reminds me that it must've been your birthday a few days ago, Jen Meddings. Sorry for not wishing you a happy birthday ( Read more... )

tired. don't want to study, as if postponing work would postpone graduation and getting surprisingly old..