I woke up this morning around 10:15. I should have gotten up earlier. Kyle came and borrowed my big pot so he could make mashed potatoes. I decided I should get up. I went and checked outside our building to see if anyone was selling onions. They weren't. I decided to go ahead and start the mushrooms. I'm really glad I did because I finished after 11:45.. which is when we were supposed to be there. I used oil, garlic, salt and pepper. They turned out really well. I accidentally cut my finger a little bit when I was cutting the [View Full Entry]

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Sometimes when I'm clicking where I am for my location on here, it totally freaks me out when I hit Asia. Again, with the "How crazy is it that I'm in China?!" Four months down, and it's still nuts. Christmas Eve began at about 7:30 in the morning or so. I woke up, got dressed, and called the fam because they would be there for Christmas. I didn't get to talk to everyone before Jessi knocked. Jession was with her, and we walked to the gate together to meet Stella. We took the bus into town and went to the open [View Full Entry]

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I woke up at 7:30 am to get to the gate by 8:00 am. I was supposed to meet Robert from Foreign Affairs, Jamey and Priscilla, Nahoko, and Ms. Tokudome (Not sure that's how you spell it...) there to embark on our journey to Shiyan. Jessi was supposed to go, but she sent me a message that morning and said she just didn't feel like it. Kyle was already there. He left early Friday to go and spend the day with a Chinese friend and would meet up with us that morning when we got there. When I got to the [View Full Entry]

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I woke up at about 11:30 and got ready because I was supposed to meet Kyle and go to town to get stuff for today's festivities. I got online, and he said that maybe we wouldn't go because we could find everything here. Then he decided maybe we wouldn't try to make our sweet potato casserole. I agreed, so we went and got some lunch. We went to the Muslim noodle place. He got noodles; I got rice. We ran into everyone today, and they all wanted to tell us "Happy Thanksgiving". We went and got something to drink, and then [View Full Entry]

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The title of this blog is a song from the movie, A White Christmas. I can't stand that movie. I lived with some girls in college who absolutely loved it. Any time they would watch it (which would be multiple times a year) I would have to leave the room or they would serenade me with that song. Seriously. I can't handle the movie, but I thought about my girls when naming the blog. I had an early morning.. 7:20. I slept with my heater next to my bed, but I still woke up a little cold. I got ready as [View Full Entry]

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Today was a normal day. I got up around noon because I ended up staying up really late last night... and by really late last night, I mean super early this morning. I got up and checked my email, and then I decided to go get something to eat. I went to the crunchy rice place. I got sweet and sour pork because when Kyle and I got it yesterday it was so good that I wanted some more. I got it to go, and I came back to my apartment. On my way back I ran into Dillon and Daley. [View Full Entry]

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To sum up Friday and Saturday I decided to write a blog. I have pictures - thanks to Kyle. I taught Friday morning, and it actually turned into more of a lecture class than it was supposed to be. It was okay though. After class I came back and slept a lot. I think I finally got up around 3. I got up and started cleaning because I had students coming over at 7. Jessi called and asked if I wanted to come up to her apartment.. she had some girls up there. I declined. I was cleaning and working on [View Full Entry]

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I didn't take pictures, but I felt like Shiyan deserved a blog... so maybe next time I go I'll take pictures and show you the city. Friday morning I got up at about 8:00 to be ready by 9:00 to get in the taxi to go to Shiyan. Jessi knocked on my door around then, and we got in the taxi a few minutes later because it was a couple of minutes late. There were two other girls in the taxi with us. Jessi sat in the back with them and gave me the front... which I was glad about. The [View Full Entry]

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Its Saturday. I got up at 6:30 am. Those words and numbers should never go together... Regardless, I woke up and got ready to leave by 7. Jessi, Kyle and I went outside to get in the taxi that was supposed to be waiting for us outside of our apartment building. It wasn there, so we walked towards the gate. Jessi got a call from Nicole in foreign affairs, and we finally found the cab.. it was in the wrong place. We got on the road and drove to Xiangfan. The plan was to meet Melody and two of her friends [View Full Entry]

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I was supposed to meet Helen at 12:30, and I had this grand plan that I was going to get up at 9:00 and get everything ready.. Well, at 11:30 I got up because there was knock at my door. I couldn't decide if it was my door or not, so I didn't get up until the second knock. It was Kyle. I'm sure I looked a mess in my pajamas and glasses. He asked if I was still going on the trip, what time, and with who(m?).. I answered him, and he was like, well, I just wanted to say [View Full Entry]

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