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Halloween China Style
... to wear out. A few weeks ago we had decided to dress up as characters from the Wizard of Oz. Unfortunately, Anthony had a bad bout of food poisoning the day we scheduled to go costume shopping, which meant that Saturday morning, I had virtually nothing for his Tinman costume. Thankfully, Laura and I are good guerrilla shoppers/ costumers and we magically found everything we needed in time to head out to the parties. Amazingly enough we even found a ...
我在中国生活
... good!
On Thursday afternoon I teach an English class. My class has six students and they are all great students. On Saturday I teach a girl, and on Sunday I teach a boy. They're both also very good students. Teaching them makes me very happy! I think teaching is very hard because I've never taught before, but I think it is also very good because after college I think I want to be a teacher in a foreign country and I want to practice teaching right ...
Kindergarten part 2
Ok so I am currently writing this as I hide in a curtained section of the kindergarten so that I don't scare the new child. She is less than two years old and this is her first day at a kindergarten away from grandma and mom. She is very freaked out and apparently scared of the strange white teacher. It turns out that my "big eyes" scare her. I usually think of my big eyes as my best feature, but apparently they are terrifying to ...
What I've Been Learning
... br>
In processing everything I'm realizing that a lack of interest in religion isn't an issue at all, but
sleeping hearts are. I believe with all of my heart that every human has in some part of their heart an unquenchable desire for its creator, but for a list of reasons too long to describe we all choose to ignore that part of our hearts and put it to sleep by gratifying cheap temporal desires. I used to be ...
A police escort
... the Big Apple which is a restaurant that serves a mixture of western and Chinese foods. It was a super funky, eclectic place with lots of American memorabilia including toy cars and a native American ceremonial mask. As is the custom here, Eric paid for everything all day because he was the one who invited us out. It was such a great way to spend the day exploring the city with him. We are looking forward to future adventures with him again ...