Sometimes when I wander around Ma’anshan I feel like a great American panda… Everyone staring at me, like I’m some gem near the edge of extinction, about to do something magnificent. The popularity and fake famedom of westerners, Americans and West Europeans alike, I’m sure will be decreasing over the next few years in China - so in a way, I feel as though I am an endangered species. On Friday of this past weekend, I went with another American teacher at Anhui Uni. Tech. (Josh) to a “Disco”. We met up with two of his students Larry and Alexander and Brady, an American English teacher from a different school. On the way there I talked with Alexander about a bath house that’s very famous in Ma’anshan and talked with Larry about his life, the auto
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