Another day, another way...
I'm back in my lovely home now. My trip was absolutely wonderful. In retrospect, it was the best vacation I've ever had. Robert and I became better friends because of it, and I learned a valuable lesson about how fireworks are totally rad.
Some cool news: My parents are coming to visit me! They should be here in about 3 months, and we'll travel around together, seeing historical things and such. I can't wait to impress them with my Chinese and knowledge of the culture. My parents have never been proud of anything that I've done until I moved to China. My father always used to yell at me for sleeping until noon and working only 8 hours a week. Now that I'm doing that in China, however, I'm suddenly King Shit. It's great.
Some other cool news: The notorious Frank Santora is coming to visit me! He'll be flying into Beijing soon. I'll keep everyone posted about that, and will take lots of pictures while he's here.
My friends Tyler and Ben are coming to visit me in Taiyuan!
They should actually be here tomorrow morning. I'm not sure if I talked about them or not; but they were two really awesome guys from Canada that Robert and I met on our Southern Travels. Remember my last night in Kunming? Where I played the drums and knocked everyone's socks off? Anyway, they told me that they were so impressed with the concert that they wanted to come visit me. I thought they were joking until he sent me an email telling me he was arriving soon...
I also signed another 6 month contract for teaching at the North University of China. This time Robert and I got a pretty sweet deal with some benefits and stuff. I started teaching a Radio and Television journalism class last Monday, and it's going really well. The students' English level is excellent, and we've been having a lot of fun. One day I bought a big bag of chocolate and told the students they could take as much as they wanted, but for each piece, they had to tell me one thing about themselves. I wrote all of this information down, and compiled a crossword puzzle, which I'll hand out on Tuesday. I've been thinking creatively about fun activities for them, and I think I'm going to help them produce a Television News program with my camera; have them go out and find hot leads, tackle some issues, and report it all in English. I'm thinking we should build a set for it as well... there's an empty apartment across the hall from mine, which could easily be converted into a sound stage. I talked to the Journalism director about this, and he says he'll be able to get me 3 or 4 cameras for the project. Should be a lot of fun.
Here's another thing I've been thinking about lately - there's a job position opening for Warwick (the bass guitar and amplifier company) in China. They're looking for someone to handle quality control at their factory here. I have sent them a resume and bitch'n cover letter; so that might be a change of events in the World of Nathan. I'll keep you (whoever 'you' might be) posted.
For now, I've got some episodes of Home Movies and The Critic to watch. See you Space Cowboy...
Some cool news: My parents are coming to visit me! They should be here in about 3 months, and we'll travel around together, seeing historical things and such. I can't wait to impress them with my Chinese and knowledge of the culture. My parents have never been proud of anything that I've done until I moved to China. My father always used to yell at me for sleeping until noon and working only 8 hours a week. Now that I'm doing that in China, however, I'm suddenly King Shit. It's great.
Some other cool news: The notorious Frank Santora is coming to visit me! He'll be flying into Beijing soon. I'll keep everyone posted about that, and will take lots of pictures while he's here.
My friends Tyler and Ben are coming to visit me in Taiyuan!
They should actually be here tomorrow morning. I'm not sure if I talked about them or not; but they were two really awesome guys from Canada that Robert and I met on our Southern Travels. Remember my last night in Kunming? Where I played the drums and knocked everyone's socks off? Anyway, they told me that they were so impressed with the concert that they wanted to come visit me. I thought they were joking until he sent me an email telling me he was arriving soon...
I also signed another 6 month contract for teaching at the North University of China. This time Robert and I got a pretty sweet deal with some benefits and stuff. I started teaching a Radio and Television journalism class last Monday, and it's going really well. The students' English level is excellent, and we've been having a lot of fun. One day I bought a big bag of chocolate and told the students they could take as much as they wanted, but for each piece, they had to tell me one thing about themselves. I wrote all of this information down, and compiled a crossword puzzle, which I'll hand out on Tuesday. I've been thinking creatively about fun activities for them, and I think I'm going to help them produce a Television News program with my camera; have them go out and find hot leads, tackle some issues, and report it all in English. I'm thinking we should build a set for it as well... there's an empty apartment across the hall from mine, which could easily be converted into a sound stage. I talked to the Journalism director about this, and he says he'll be able to get me 3 or 4 cameras for the project. Should be a lot of fun.
Here's another thing I've been thinking about lately - there's a job position opening for Warwick (the bass guitar and amplifier company) in China. They're looking for someone to handle quality control at their factory here. I have sent them a resume and bitch'n cover letter; so that might be a change of events in the World of Nathan. I'll keep you (whoever 'you' might be) posted.
For now, I've got some episodes of Home Movies and The Critic to watch. See you Space Cowboy...