Blogs from Minle, Zhangye, Gansu, China, Asia

Greetings once more, I'm writing on this sincerely joyous occasion to mark the end of my stay in Minle, the final part of which was occasionally pleasant and at the same time, regularly drove me to the point of exasperation. The last month, we've been working in a new area, in the foothills of the mountains, and so we've mostly been at around 2800m. The weather's been gorgeous n the mountains an ever present spectacular backdrop. Everyone's busy in the fields with their weird tractors or hoes and assorted bizzare implements, and the world looks like a vast never-ending series of big allotments. I have a major psychological indisposition with regard to working in China. a)Due to my internal wiring, I am incapable of showing respect to someone due to the fact that they are older ... read more

Nothing really happens. Well, nothing of note...in the vast majority of the endless hours that stretch between the dawn of our time memorial and our sudden and ultimate exit from this bizarre cauldren of existence. If you were to eliminate the major dramatic incidents from your life, I suppose you'd find that the remaining 98 percent of your existence was composed entirely of routine scurrying and scuttling, domestic ordinarities, nail clipping and whiling away hours awaiting things which are quite pleasant yet don't quite account for the complete disregard of all the hours inbetween. Maybe I should pay more attention to the inbetween hours although I have precious little to mention. Work has seeped between the days and filled up the gaps of my every waking hour like some kind of mercurial poison since the commencement ... read more