Tag Archives: Stick
Typical Dinner
This is a typical dinner for Stick and me… vinegar peanuts, cold garlic cucumbers, spicy peanut chicken (gung pao ji dian — all foreigners very like), and fried egg and scallion rice. No dinner is complete without a couple bottles … Continue reading
My That Person
The worst thing about living with Stick… well, actually it’s the second worst thing. The very worst is all that compromising garbage that I’m meant to be doing. But the second worst thing is what to call him. I feel … Continue reading
Ali Bali
We had another lame department meeting on Friday, at which the foreign teachers were asked to sing more songs, add more chants, and more “action songs.” Now, I’m not adverse to teaching and singing Head&Shoulders, or the ABC song (with … Continue reading
Sunday Afternoon
This afternoon, Stick and I took a long walk to our new favorite restaurant. Our new spot isn’t very different from any of the other little not-dumpling restaurants in the area, but the differences are significant ones. The tables and … Continue reading
Two Foreigners!
Stick and I went to the Auchan market today, and we split up so I could look at clothes and he could not look at clothes. I guess I must have looked lost without him, because a random man passing … Continue reading
Chicken!
This is a chicken magnet on our fridge. The picture doesn’t really do it justice — this is a little bigger than my hand, and the colors are bright and shiny. Tonight we passed a street vendor with a blanket … Continue reading
Not The Same
This is Stick about to eat hot pot (did I mention how awesome hotpot is? ‘Cause it is. Unless it gave me food poisoning…) We went to Da Bu Tong, apparently it’s pretty famous for varieties of hotpot broth and … Continue reading
Belated Hohhot Adventures — Bumper Bubbles!
On our first morning, Stick and I took a walk through Xinhua Square. We discovered that what we’d first thought was a strange sculpture was actually an aquatic hamster wheel for wee ones! The kids were all having a great … Continue reading
Sorry, No Pictures
On the morning of the third day of my food poisoning adventure, I awoke and… Ok, “I awoke” is clearly wrong as I hadn’t been sleeping so much as lying there wondering why the clock was moving so slowly, in … Continue reading
Hohhot Mosque
On our first day, we walked down to the Great Mosque. We knew we were getting close because we started to see Muslim butcher shops and the architecture of the whole area changed. There was quite a bit of staring … Continue reading
