So, I'm 24 now? Can someone take a minute and explain to me how I have gotten this old and still have no direction in my life? Haha. I've technically been 24 for like 15 days now but we all know that I am a very prompt livejournal who always updates on a regular and punctual basis. Yeah ( Read more... )

rainbowazaela asked me about any hilarious mistakes I have made when speaking Chinese. I don't think that I've ever said anything that was misconstrued as something hilarious - usually when I make mistakes, whatever meaning I am trying to convey just gets rendered completely unintelligible and we stand around being all confused. They constantly warn you in ( Read more... )

I has it. It's no big deal, but I do just hope my medicine kicks in soon as I want the chest pain to go away! The cough I can deal with, the chest pain is what made me cave and go see a doctor. (The pain just kicked in yesterday, so I promise I wasn't ignoring chest pain for days and days or anything ( Read more... )

So, my updates have sure been scarce the past couple months, haven't they? It's mostly because LJ is what I like to call "half blocked" in China. I can still access the site, but it takes forever to load, the html is all wonky, and most images are broken. I've been following along with everyone else's posts, but actually posting is just too ( Read more... )

I haven't updated in a bazillion years. I thought I'd be updating all the time once I was not in China, but the internet here is SLOOOOW. Oh well! I'm headed back to China in the morning, and I'm trying to be optimistic about it. I'm not particularly thrilled, but at least this semester it will be getting warmer instead of colder ( Read more... )

Big thanks and hugs and love to both greyblaize and ladystarlightsj for sending me Christmas cards!!!!

greyblaize, yours arrived a couple days ago, an ladystarlightsj, I have no idea when yours came in, because when the ladies at the front desk gave me the other card, they were all "Oh. And there's this one, it's been here for a while... but we forgot to give it to you." Such is mail here ( Read more... )

 A quick post just to say that my internet, as usual, is going to run out in about fifteen minutes, and depending on when the internet place is open (New Years is a public holiday in China), when the lines die down, and when it's not -30, I will drag myself over there and buy January's internet. Be good without me, internets!! I hope to see you ( Read more... )

IT GOT COLDER!!!


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 I have to leave for class, like, a minute ago, but I HAD to share this craziness with you all:


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 All the students at HeiDa are going to the Harbin International Snow & Ice Festival tonight, and someone in my roommate's class asked their teacher exactly how much clothing we should wear so as to not freeze to death. Apparently, she said "All of them. Just wear them all ( Read more... )