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Published: December 13th 2006
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Cute hat on a cute baby
I see this pair often. This is a really cute baby. Winter pictures and I’m well
The big dose of penicillin seems to have cured my throat. I feel great. I think the bamboo jars were cupping. I didn’t smell anything unusual like mugwort used in moxibustion. Wang, my masseur, didn’t use the glass jars, but the principle was the same. Here are two web sites with some info, http://www.geocities.com/altmedd/cupping.htm, http://www.itmonline.org/arts/cupping.htm After reading about this, maybe the cupping helped cure my sore throat. He did put on an even number of cups, first one on the left, then one on the right in a parallel place. Probably a ying and yang balance. It was 6 or 8 altogether. It was all done really fast. I was lying on a table face down with a face hole in the table. Since he speaks Chinese and a few words of English and I’m the reverse, he took the clock off the wall and held it below the face hole so I could see it, to indicate how long I would lie there. But the towel on the hole was in the way, so I think it was ten minutes. ;-)
I told you before how cold the school is, so I want
popcorn vendor
He sells popcorn and puffed rice. Both with a little sugar on it. I bought some rice. I ate it with milk like we do at home. to show you some pictures of one of my classes bundled up. Everyone, including me, has a tea jar. Most of the time it holds hot water, sometimes tea, or coffee. (Instant Nescafe with cream and sugar packets) You can see the students warming their hands on the jars. I do it, too. It works. You can also see what smart and good looking students I have.
The street vendors are selling hot foods like sweet potatoes, corn on the cobb, chestnuts, or the ginger which is boiled for ginger tea, to cure/prevent colds. (Shucks, I should be doing that, too.) Look at how the babies are bundled up.
I’m planning to go to Xi’an, in north China, during the month vacation (spring festival). I was told yesterday that I will be warmer there, because it’s colder outside, so they heat the rooms. Nanjing is in the south, so it doesn’t get so cold here. It’s two degrees Celsius today.
I’m downplaying Christmas this year. I’ll go to dinner at Linell’s and take my pot luck dish. It will be a small group. I’m in the process of getting presents for everyone. Can’t say anything here; it
corn on the cob vendor
He's taking a break with his friend. might get read. I already mailed my boxes to the States. I’ll probably get sad if I decorate a lot and remind myself that I’m missing the fun. Some students want to go to church with me on the 24th. I think it’s a tourist thing; but that’s fine with me. I bought a CD of the Nutcracker ballet. What are some suggestions of things I could do with my students in class? Several of you are teachers who probably have good ideas. I need help here.
Christmas decorations are everywhere and are for sale everywhere.
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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.