So it's been a while. Like I said, I'm not a blogger. So I'll pretend the first part of this was written a long time ago. Last Wednesday morning found both Zak and I on buses headed to the Shenzhen airport to begin almost a week of exploring the provinces of Sichuan and Chongqing. It was a welcome break from teaching for us both and neither of us had yet visited this particular area of China. We flew first into Chongqing, the capital city being of the same name as the province. Upon arrival it was clearly evident how spoiled we [View Full Entry]

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the internet and I do not get along [View Full Entry]

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"What can one say about buses?" is what I'm sure you're all thinking. Well allow me a rant. Most people love the bus system here. And yes, I must admit that if my intended destination is more than a mile from my starting block, then they are a most wondrous and inspired means of getting to said destination. They are the cheapest form of public transit I've ever come across and go virtually everywhere you could possibly want to frequent. But the detriment of them is that they are quite simply TOO convenient and TOO cheap. There is really no need [View Full Entry]

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It's a Sunday night, exactly 10 pm. Normally I'd be avoiding lesson planning and getting ready to start the week all over again; steeling my reserves for the students' antics, both of the funny and frustrating variety. However, last Thursday I stumbled upon an unexpected light in my schedule. I was informed by my contact teacher, Erica, that all of the Junior 2's have "technical training" this week, before she broke out in a wide grin and followed it up with a "very good, right?". I was quick to agree with her and then hastily sent out a text message to [View Full Entry]

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At 2 pm I was all ready to head into class and teach but was informed of a change in the schedule when I got there and am now teaching at 3 instead. Were it my first week here, I'd become confused, thrown off, and a little frustrated. However, I cannot count how many times something like this has happned while I've been here and now take it as just something that happens in China. It's known as "nowism". Other examples include: 1. Being told two hours ahead of time that I will be attending a banquet with all the teachers [View Full Entry]

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Well, you've finally done it. You've guilted me into starting a blog of my life here in China. As I stated previously, don't be expecting magic. I'm not a fan of blogging, really at all. But I've gotten too many "tell us what's going on!!" "what are you doing??" "send us ANYTHING!!" and as I am, obviously, very horrible at keeping up on emails as well, I figured this would be the easiest medium in which to reach many people at once. And if you don't like it, you don't have to check it AND your inbox won't be filled with [View Full Entry]

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