The morning after… Spring Festival is finished.
Well, aside from an adult class in an hour and one on Monday evening… I’m officially done the first portion of my contract – the Winter Intensive. What does this mean you ask? For starters, and most significantly to me, it means five days a week of sleeping in; [...]
The Shenyang Gang
In all honesty, I’m in very little mood to write, and far more tempted to just hit the magic X in the corner and call it a night. It’s been a long couple of days, and I really want a full night’s sleep. But as we both (now) know, such is not my [...]
That’s right folks… the world’s biggest communist country just hit top of the charts as biggest consumer. According to a CBC.ca article China just beat out America as the top consumer…
Oh, and for anyone that might have heard about that big coal mine explosion that has killed like 200-some-odd people… it was in the same [...]
I guess anything is difficult when you are first learning, but man am I ever frustrated with this damn Chinese thing.
I’ve realized that if I’m going to get anywhere with it I really need to practice more. I tend to just throw in a phrase here and there, and mostly listen… but I don’t do [...]
Right, so I’ve undergone about four days worth of serious overeating. I mean, it’s nuts. We Westerners think we’ve got it bad because at “the holidays” we eat too much… but usually just one day. Spring Festival is insane… just non-stop gorging for like a week. I mean the Chinese tend to eat a lot [...]
