Having a bit of trouble with everything at school and home. First of all no one seems to understand my relationship with Cam. Everyone thinks we're having an awful relationship and doesn't know why I'm in it. Just to let you know first of all I'm not masochistic and from past experience ya'll should know that I've stuck to relationships that I benefit from not ones that harm me. Yes Cam and I fight and yes that aggravates me and I do end up complaining about it a lot to others because most of the time I don't understand why it [View Full Entry]

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Lately I have been getting more and more frustrated with the Chinese way of doing things. They do some things that absolutely don't make any sense to me. Today, for example, the security man who works for the school (Jason) walked into the foreign teacher's office and turned on the flourescent lights (which we never use) instead of the halogens (that we always use). He told Yuki (one of the students who is always here and kind of like a friend to me) to translate to me that the reason he was doing it is because the halogens are more apt [View Full Entry]

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Just moved into a new place and some people are asking me about the layout and what it looks like. I've termed it a palace because it's 120 square meters (I'm pretty sure they're square meters) up on the 17th floor. It has two big windows on either side, one looks out onto the apartment complex that I live in and the mall that Cam works at and towards the sea. The other side looks out towards Olympic Square and the river next to my apartment. The building has an elevator and ramps into the building, which is really nice. There [View Full Entry]

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I think I finally know what it's like to be the husband coming home from a long day at work. You just worked 13 hours and all you want to do is pass out. You don't really want to talk to anyone, don't really want to do anything, just want to rest. But the only problem is everything around you is not at rest, it's still moving. So you still have to deal with the noises of your wife and your little child (or in my case my boyfriend and my roommate). Yesterday my roommate came up with a real stickler. [View Full Entry]

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You are a man who owns many cats at home. I was a tiger you found in the wild. The moment you saw me you looked and thought to yourself “aah, such a beautiful creature but it’s a tiger and all I have are cats.” But then, after some examination, you discovered I had some of the same features as a cat and you decided to take me in and try to tame me to become a cat. But alas inside me I still felt like a tiger. Every now and then I would feel my bones ache from being locked [View Full Entry]

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There was a handsome little boy who lived in a town. Every now and then he would go out into the woods to have a picnic. But every time he went out he came back screaming "Tiger! Tiger!" The first time he did it the townspeople got really scared and started running trying to get to safety. But the tiger never came. After that when the boy came running back screaming "Tiger! Tiger!" the townspeople went crazy for they were thinking to themselves "Is he telling the truth or not? We love this little boy but he always screams this. Maybe [View Full Entry]

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So it's finally happened. I didn't know it would happen this fast but I'm finally starting to get old. I slept 9 hours last night and again fell asleep the entire bus ride from my school to my work. For some reason I always seem to be tired, no matter how much sleep I get. Also I'm getting lovehandles! Darby with lovehandles, can you imagine? I mean really! I never thought it would happen. I think I just need to sleep and exercise more. I've not been exercising recently because I've been so tired but maybe I'm tired because I'm not [View Full Entry]

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So I really need help with this problem. Cam's aunt decided that we were close enough that she could request something from me through Cam. So Cam asked me to get it and I said I would try. Unfortunately this item that was requested does not exist. She is looking for a sweatshirt (preferrably wool) made in the US that says "made in the US". Unless I get someone to make a sweatshirt for me I am not sure about such a thing existing. I have looked on-line, my parents have looked in the stores and I no longer know what [View Full Entry]

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Haven't really been blogging lately. Don't really know what to write about. Can't write about Cam any more and don't really have a great feeling about writing about what I do every day all day long - teaching and studying. Not really much of a change. Someone kind of said it once a long time ago when I was blogging, my blog isn't a travel blog and that's what the site's for. I live here and have a life so I haven't really thought that people would want to read about it. The things I could possibly write about are the [View Full Entry]

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So yesterday I taught my English Corner on periods, sex and pregnancy to women only. A bunch of people were worried about the topic beforehand. A couple people said that it wouldn't go well and people would end up walking out because they got frightened. Others were making fun of me for the topic and not being helpful when it came time to ask them questions about it. But when I got in the classroom it was completely jam-packed with women and one tutor in their to try and learn new things. It was like teaching middle schoolers. I started off [View Full Entry]

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