Today was tattoo day. A bunch of our laowei (foreigner) crew were getting tattoos together from a famous tattoo artist in Jinan. Amy wasn’t sure exactly where the place was, so we met at the school and cabbed it over together. The tattoo parlour was located in a small one room store with pictures all … More Day 158, Monday June 23 2014
We had a meeting with Candy today, and she told us we would do fathers day and word cup on weekend demos. We were all very confused about “word cup” thinking it must be some sort of unexplained game… until someone said “world cup” at which point Candy said “yes yes, wooooord cup.” I felt … More Day 171, Friday June 06 2014
Today is the day of our tour that began with a frantic bike ride through buzzy city streets, “climaxed” with a pair of very bright, and all too small men’s swim trunks, and ended with a lunch on a floating raft looking out at a backdrop of karst mountains. We were to meet tour guide Paul at … More YANGSHUO: Day 203, Thursday March 20 2014
Sunday March 02 2014 Day booked solid. Had to put a lesson plan together as I will be starting work at a Kindergarten tomorrow through the school. Took my time eating at the “noodle factory” that didn’t sell noodles, and read some Chinese history. At home I watched some episodes of monkey king, which I … More RHYTHM OF LIFE: Day 185, Sunday March 02 2014
A lot of stuff is still closed because of Chinese New Years, so we’re running out of things to keep us busy. We’ve decided to head home tomorrow instead of sticking around for the weekend. We went exploring again, a thick layer of snow had fallen the night before and everything looked different. I had … More QINGDAO: Day 161, Thursday February 06 2014
Well I don’t have a post for November 01 other then to say that it was a rough day to teach after our Halloween night, so I thought I’d talk a little about the background behind my costume. I was the monkey king for halloween, Se Wukong. Se Wukong comes from a fable about a … More LIFE: Day 64, November 01 2013
I made my first appearance in my Monkey King costume today as we celebrated halloween in my new Pineapple class. The children were a little afraid of me in my mask, but once I took it off and they could see my face they were quite excited about the costume and enjoyed having “Se Wukong” … More HALLOWEEN: Day 59, Sunday October 27 2013
We went to the hutong Friday morning to buy items for our halloween costumes. I was going to dress as the monkey king and so I was looking for a leopard print scarf to tie around my waist. I found one in the mall that claimed to be 50% off, but was still 326 RMB … More SETTLING IN: Day 57, Friday October 25 2013
I had a meeting with Lisa and company, the parents I had been talking to about tutoring their kids. They were very nice and it was fun talking to them, as it always is with Chinese people. They were all teachers at the university and they had very good written English but limited oral English. … More FINDING A RHYTHM: Day 27, Wednesday September 25 2013
Had a lazy morning and a big breakfast of eggs, fresh buns, and hash browns prepared by Nate. Spent the morning in the Gazebo behind our building reading, writing, and relaxing. We discovered exercise equipment by the park! We’d seen outdoor exercise equipment across the city, but didn’t realize we had some so close! When … More CRAVING HAMBURGERS: Day 15, Friday September 13 2013
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