http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Audsey/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Audsey en-us Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:02:31 +0000 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:02:31 +0000 Sunday September 03 2006 Withdrawl Current mood awake Category currently caffinating... Fashion Style Shopping I MISS RESALE SHOPSTHRIFT STORESLast night my mom called me from downstate Michigan where she's been staying with my stepdad in the hospital for over two weeks. My stepdad Mike needed some extra clothes for his physical therapy other than the hospital stuff and the stuf http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-122007.html PrefaceWell ni hao zenmayang etc. Yesterday my dad asked me why I haven't posted another blog recently. I told him that nothing too exiting tai xingfen had been happening in my life recently apart from being in China...hehe. Just now walking back from Shiling town I decided that I could probably think of a few new things to blog about. Then when I logged onto the TravelBlog website there http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/blog-56818.html It seems that recently I feel that nothing particularly exciting or distinctive has been going on...but I'm sure there are a few things I can mention so I'll do so The main factor in my recent business has been the addition of the new crosscultural communication class for the Party representatives who will travel to Thailand to do some kind of business venture. I spend a lot of time preparing http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-55953.html Excuses excuses Well I figured I better make a posting before my blog seemed officially inactive. I realize it's been a bit of time since I've posted. I haven't fallen off the face of the earth or into the stagnant ponds on campus...I've simply been busy with classes and a cluster of new developments. Adult Oral EnglishSo my blogabsence began in early April when I started teaching a new ora http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-53756.html UpdateSo firstly warm and love imbued birthday wishes to my Grammy Edna April 1st my mom and dad April 3rd and my stepdad Mike April 5th. Our family certainly is good at birthday clusters. If all you birthdayfolk were here in China it would be appropriate and expected for me to cake you in the face with some highly fluffily frosted pineapple filled birthday cake. Of course you eat t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-50235.html A day with JasonSo for the remainder of this past week I spent time getting better and doing lesson planning for the upcoming week. On Saturday I had planned to do a lot of lesson planning but one of my oral English students caught me at the cafeteria at breakfast fresh after my morning run sweat still dripping slightly on my brow. He wanted to know if we could practice his pronunciation rig http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-49066.html Well going into day four of the sickness routine I decided to call the Peace Corps medical office. After describing my symptoms they diagnosed what I had presummed food poisoning. All due to some deadly dofu Chinese for tofu. Anyway so I'm instructed to eat plain foods diluted juice ginger tea and drink lots of water before meals. Sadly this fourth day of Grrrrness means that I won't b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-48064.html Well the long awaited entry on my trip to the Longquan Peach Blossom Festival is now heremdashheld up due to the havoc wrecked by the aforementioned tofu more on that later. So let me preface this entry by saying that my trip to Longquan with my favorite friends turned out to be one of my best days in China. Hopefully my description can do justice to the day.Background infohellipAs with http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-47978.html So my last entry was after playing Fighting the Landlord with my friend Jeff and his girlfriend. That day we planned to have me cook some American food for them later in the week. We chose Wednesday as the day and so on Sunday I set about gathering the ingredients needed to make an American dish in China. This involves making a trip to the Carrefour a huge multilevel Meijerrsquos type pla http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-46820.html So last night my new student friend Jeff called me to ask if I wanted to come to his apartment offcampus to play Fight the Landlord Dou Di Zhu in Chinese with him and his girlfriend. This is a game I really like cause it's a card game so more my style than majiang and also I'm actually kinda good at it. So he asked what time would be good I said whenever. So 10 a.m. it was So I met http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-45803.html Last weekend my site mate Paul's sophomore oral English class invited me to come with them and Paul to this entertainment place called Long Je Le. It's a place where you can play majiang play cards do KTV go fishing and eat meals. It is really close to the university so we took a small bus there but then walked back. I learned to play majian which is a very famous and popular game in Sichua http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-45642.html Hey so....guess what I've started a blog. Fun times to be sure I hope. So since I've already been in China for more than eight months this is kind of like starting a book in the middle but better late than never right But I've realized that so many little interesting things happen day to day and my perspectives continue to evolve day by day moment by moment so I think it's important to http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-45519.html