I've been back now for about week and within this small amount of time, I've experienced all the things I love and loath about living here. Lets see ( Read more... )

So its been three weeks now since I've been back in Canada and all is well. I forgot how slowly things move here especially in the country where at first the never ending silence was deafening and watching the the Young and the Restless with my mom eventually made me beg her to let me loose in the city. Small things like people talking about ( Read more... )

So in 4 days, I'll be on my way home to Canada for a whole month. To be completely honest with you, I'm not that excited. Now I'm not saying that I'm dreading it but I haven't really given it that much thought. These last two weeks have had alot of work and alot of fun. Report cards and lesson plans for a month have kept me busy not to mention ( Read more... )

So for the last 2 weeks I HAVEN'T HAD WATER! Sometimes I won't have water for a day or two but after 4 days I figured something was up. I got the school to call my landlord and he told us that the bank and the water company had some kind of falling out and they cut the water to my whole building. So for the past two weeks I've been going to ( Read more... )

Lets see..........Not much at all is really going on at the moment. Spending my time reading about cool places to move next, maybe Mongolia, maybe Shanghai, I still dont know yet. Maybe I'll stay here but that isn't one of the most appealing options. What else? Looking in to University by correspondance, figure that should only take about a year ( Read more... )

So while I was walking to work a few days ago, I noticed something strange going on, on the busiest corner of my neighborhood (Tong Zhi Jie and Guilin Lu). For those of you who don't know, I live in the market area of a city of 7 million. There are always people out and about and I don't mean a few hundred,I talking thousands on a regular afternoon ( Read more... )

In Ten days, it will officially be one year since I've been in China. Here are some facts and conclusions I've come to while living here. Hope you enjoy ( Read more... )

So about two weeks ago, Dave, Avi,Fred and myself all got really loaded and Avi started asking if I could get him a job in Canada for a few months, working under the table. I told him that it probably wounldn't be to hard. This led Dave to say, " Fuck it man, I don't want to go home this year. I'll just go to Canada with you!" Once Fred heard this ( Read more... )

So a few days ago I was sitting in a coffee shop and I noticed two really hot girls sitting across from me. This is not all that unusual but after a while one of the girls phone rand and she started speaking english. Once again, not all that unusual but she had a Chinese / American accent; her english was almost perfect. After she hung up the phone ( Read more... )

So here's a brief update for all of you who have been dying to know what's going on in my life. Really, at the moment nothing is going on that is all that special. I spend my mornings in yoga class, where I am the only foreigner and 1 of three guys in a class of 30 or so. I know yoga sounds a little gay and all but honestly it kills two birds with ( Read more... )