Data Recovery Is there any way you can recover what you have put into the travel blog? There were a lot of pictures and tales. Maybe Joe or Mike could print out every blog for you ... that way you can have part of what you lost.
Hello I enjoy reading about your daily life in China and am glad you're enjoying yourself. We missed you at the Thanksgiving reunion and look forward to seeing you when you return to Atlanta.
Happy New Year!! Susan: Your explorations are so interesting, please keep them coming!!!
So glad your sister is coming. Please detail everything you do while she's there!!
Peggy
hooray for more blogs! I cannot remember what those wrapped things are called either. I ate them once and thought I was supposed to eat the leaf. lol. If I remember, I will comment again. My dad probably knows what they are called.
I love your photos and blogs! Keep them up, please? =) I cannot wait to see what kind of adventures you and Sally have.
Hi Susie! Happy New Year! Thank you for being so faithful in updating your blog. I love to read it and get the feelings of what you are experiencing in China. Please do plan to visit the Phoenixville area when you return to the states so we can catch up in person. Wishing you a happy and healthy 2007 filed with new and exciting experiences.
Hey, Susie!! What a great blog!! I love being able to catch up with your life there the way you present it on the blog. And the photos are great! Christmas has really become an international secular holiday it seems. Those who want it to mean the celebration of Christ's birth do what they do to have that meaning be part of it. Otherwise it seems that everybody everywhere can celebrate it as another holiday!
Miss you and love you, Gailey
great update Great update, Mom! Sorry to hear you're feeling down, but boy you have packed in a lot of good holiday things. Doing more for the holidays than most of us here in the States! That's very nice about passing out the pictures, too. Happy New Year! Love Mike
Merrry Christmas and Happy New Year I was thinking of you a lot this past month. When will you get back home?
Happy to see you are having so much fun. Look forward to your messages.
My mom was in a nursing home for 2 months. I was sick and now have a hiatal
hernia and bronchiectasis. Then Frank came down with a respiratory infection.
But we are all on the mend. Hope 2007 is good for us all.
BROWN.FORD.SADDAM HI SUSAN,
on the day after the various orgies of James Brown's
funeral, interspersed with shots from DC with Ford in state, and
the funeral there, followed by Exclamations on TV and news of
Saddam's hanging...with the various lynch mobs in Crawford and
elsewhere cheering. Dec. 31, 2006
I wonder what 'images' you see on Chinese
TV..James Brown..friends and relatives dancing in Georgia,.do people
ask and do you tell them you're 'from there'... How about Ford?
It seems you settled in Atlanta just about the time Ford stepped into
Agnew's shoes...am I right...when did you and Bob marry? I recall
you arrived 4th of July 1970, during the Pop Fesitival..right also..?
And what about Saddam..any video's of his'hanging' posted on the
wall..and when, WHEN is Chinese Olympics..2008?
happy new year from Philadelphia, and today, later, DC.
Howard Romaine
Happy New Year!!! Merry Christmas, Susie! Looks like your students acted as your family on Christmas Eve. It made me smile. =) I hope you are well and that your internet is back up and running quickly.
Susan,
I don't communicate much, but I just had to tell you how much I enjoy your blog. I love the pictures and your commentary. I'm almost there.
Hope you have a merry Christmas and happy new year.
Pattie
Hi, Susie! I love the live chickens in front of KFC, but I especially like the holiday banner and the photo of the holiday display at the Univ. How interesting that your students come to your apt. to visit you. I forgot about visiting profs. in college...
Hope your neck is better now and you are not having a cold.
I mis you!
Love, Gailey
Hi Susan:
I'm all for conserving energy, but it seems a bit insensitive to have people freezing indoors while trying to learn....but, what do I know, the Chinese are some of the smartest people in the world, so maybe there is an advantage to learning in the cold...??
Just think, this Christmas spent in China will be something we'll be able to talk about for a long time, and also to tell your grandchildren!!
Happy Holidays!!
Peggy
Christmas in class Good pix but I was looking for a photo of long underwear hanging from a tree or balcony. Celebrating Christmas in class: (1) Teach them to sing "Deck the Halls." (2) teach them 5 or 6 ways to wish someone merry Christmas, happy holidays, etc. (3) tell them the Chrinese version of the Christmas story - Christmas and Spring Festival are similar, both are winter solstice celebrations. (4) wrap a piece of candy in an idiom and give them as gifts - sort of a reversal of the fortune cookie thing.
SO nice to get flowers!!! Hi! That is so thoughtful to bring you flowers....
Maybe you should go to the chiropractor on a regular basis....?? And yes, maybe lots of Vitamin C....?
Keep the observations coming....I really enjoy them.
Happy Holidays!!
Peggy
Moxibustion Were the heat-filled jars a form of moxibustion (a method of traditional Chinese healing I don't know anything about)? Have you asked the doctor aboput ways to prevent sore throats? Take care of yourself.
hi Hi Susie,
I enjoy reading your blogs - I can relate to warm rooms.
Can't wait to hear how Christmas goes. Are you going to decorate your place, sing carols, travel?
reactions from Nashville Susan, when I hear you talk of constant colds, I wonder several things.a.)what about vitamin C, do you take it, get enough? b.I wonder about my own sniffles here in Nashville, with the change of the weather to cold, and think about the vaporizer Rita got me last year...I must set it up..I'm wondering if the climate there is much dryer than in the U.S. and that could be partly it, then, c.) I think of particulate matter in the air, in rapidly industrializing, and uncontrolled, Chinese development..well, enough of my differential diagnosis. I'm happy to receive these continued notes, and that your students bring you flowers, and enjoy the internet..what's their take on the 'revolutionary change in U.S. Politics'..give us a hint next mail..happy Christmas Holidays..do you get some there..is there a Winter Break..love to you from Nashville, Atlanta, and the Deep South, H Romaine
Glad you are better....!! Hi Susan: Sorry to hear you were ill, but glad you are better. Thanks for sharing your new life; it's all so interesting.
All is well here...talked to Michele yesterday. She and I, Dotti, Kira, Orisa, and whoever else wants to, will try to have lunch once a month just to keep in touch.....
Wish you were here but glad you are having this experience....!!
Until next time....
Peggy
I retired. I’m almost 80 now and have some old age problems. I do small amounts of traveling still.
Last summer I went to Hawaii with my sons and grandchildren. I still love to go camping although I do not have an RV anymore. I moved from Atlanta to Washington DC to be near family. I have been here seven years now. I will try to keep this blog up-to-date.
During the Covid pandemic I sat around too much and got fat and sassy so I’m now on a fasting diet. Maybe you’d want to know how that goes too.
I will stay in touch.
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Is there any way you can recover what you have put into the travel blog? There were a lot of pictures and tales. Maybe Joe or Mike could print out every blog for you ... that way you can have part of what you lost.