Tag Archives: Chinese life
Asking for it
Yesterday, I got the worst haircut ever. Really. I’ve cut my hair myself and it came out better than this. I dyed my hair purple and no stage, as it faded back to brown, was as bad as this. I … Continue reading
China Blogs
John at Sinosplice brilliantly explains one of the fundamental differences between Chinese and lao wei, and gets himself punched. John first won my love with reasons why life in China is like an RPG. TalkTalkChina, the home of bitter ex-pats … Continue reading
Chinese Harry Potter Again
Living in China is making me more and more sympathetic to Harry Potter. He’s just trying to live a normal life and everyone at Hogwarts keeps pointing and shouting “The Choosen One!” or “The Boy Who Lived!” Except Cho Chang, … Continue reading
Regarding Franz Ferdinand:
Would someone please tell me if “Austro-Hungarian Empire”, “Bosnian assassins”, and “the beginning of World War One” are also bands before my students get any more impromptu history lessons?
Our Foreigner
So the other day I was at the little streetmarket in the alley near my apartment, and I saw crazy little melons I couldn’t recognize. I asked the seller what they are, but my language skills are at a weird … Continue reading
Long-Distance Call
Last night I realized that pictures of my kids are crowding out my pictures from home. It seemed symbolic and sad that class photos and favorite students are starting to cover my pictures of Stick. Actually, most of my bad-China … Continue reading
Ji, what were you thinking?
Last week my boss Ji took my class of Demon Children when I went out with Fresca. The Demon Children, and not the homesickness or lack of hot water, brought me closest to going back to the states. I am … Continue reading
Still Not Over The Staring Thing
As Jeff and Fresca both said, mere words cannot describe the constant staring in Kafaqu, but I’m going to try anyway. (Sorry to bore the old China hands.) I can understand it on some level, a foriegn girl playing games … Continue reading
Fresca Goes Back To Massachusetts
Fresca left yesterday and I’m very sad. I miss her already, especially because without Fresca wandering around naked and singing “If you’re happy and you know it, kick your friend!”, I have developed a lot of antisocial tendencies. I drink … Continue reading
Space Chase
Stephen Follows, the producer of The War On Terror: The Musical has a new movie called Space Chase which is up for some kind short film of the year award at this Cannes thing which is important to people who … Continue reading
