I wish I had seen this restaurant at some point in my travels. It is even better than "Baby on Road."

I went to an informational about jobs with the State Department today. Unfortunately the presentation focused on the Foreign Service, and managed to cement my thoughts that the Foreign Service is not for me. Not now at least, and not in the foreseeable future. Not only do I seriously doubt that I could pass the foreign service exam, but the people ( Read more... )

We went onto Huangshan proper today. Once again we woke up early and took the 6am bus from the hostel to Huangshan ( Read more... )

The IES program is now officially finished and I am on a train going to start my summer travel by going to Yichang with Reece. Originally I was planning on leaving on Monday to go down to Nanjing, but my plans somersaulted only a day before I left ( Read more... )

Next day leave start travel. Not have I ownership electirc brain or on web for two star weeks. Later see you!
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One of my Chinese buddies, Whitney, got last minute tickets to see the Peking Acrobats when they preformed at Rudder Theater earlier this evening. Since I am one of the weird Chinese people she asked if I would like to go, so I naturally said “Screw fencing practice.” And went to the show. Yes, I did make sure that another officer would be there. ( Read more... )

I <3 my Chinese class. Once again it is my favorite class of the semester because I like the subject, because the Prof is amazing, because I’m good at it, and because we have a community. Thanks to Zhao lao shi’s insistence last semester everyone knows everyone else, and because it is a language class Zhao lao shi gets to ask all sorts of personal ( Read more... )

So I woke up at the unholy hour of 6 o'clock in the am so that I could mess with my schedule as soon as registration reopened and I must say that freshmen are dipshits. Yes indeed, freshmen are dipshits. And so are the administrative morons ( Read more... )

I got my Chinese book today and I have to say that it is the happiest book that I have laid my hands on in years. It is full of pictures of smiling people (white people too), butterflies, teddy bears, happy little animals, happy little inanimate objects, and - I kid you not - unicorns! Yes, unicorns. You know the mythical horse like beast that has ( Read more... )

Today was my first day of Chinese classes. I went down to the Chinese community center in West Houston, and only got a little lost. The class is Beginning Chinese for Adults, and I must say THANK GOD it is for adults, because the three year olds know more then I do. Today we started off by going around and introducing ourselves. Most of the people ( Read more... )