Next to my hotel is a collection of restaurants. Bill took Vega (my TA) and me to two of them. So when I decided that I couldn’t just hide in my hotel room and live on the breakfast buffet, I went to one of the two places I knew. I chose it because I remembered […]
Due to the aforementioned tea accident, I lost all my writings about my initial impressions. They were long and rambling – like most of my stories. Rather than try to recreate all of them here, I’m going to talk about getting to China, and a sort of summary of my first few days. Day 1: […]
I got myself access to a VPN router, which means I can now access social networking on my own! Huzzah for technology! Now for an update/story: The tea was behind my laptop, so of course I didn’t see it. And so, when I moved my laptop and knocked the tea over, it caught me by […]
All right, everyone, this is a little important as it impacts this blog directly. China’s firewall won’t let me access social media or my blog postings – not here at WordPress, not at my other blogs on blogspot. No Facebook, no Twitter, nothing. I don’t know why I believed anyone who said that my US […]
Preparations Part II: Emotional Prep – Goodbyes and Other Such Phenomena Yes, it happens to us all when we make a big change in our lives. Emotions – those pesky things that get in the way of logistics. The thing that makes you wake up at 4am because you can’t remember if you packed pens. […]
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