(Just posted on www.rapturina.comThere is one thing I was rather apprehensive about before coming to China to live in a city where a foreigner is still an anomaly: the staring. When I was in India last year the amount of people staring at me drove me crazy, so I was worried it’d be the same here in China (I could obviously never be a celebrity ( Read more... )

(just posted at www.rapturina.comA few days ago I finally moved into my own apartment, hurrah! I’m very happy with it, it’s only a small apartment but for one person it’s perfect. Once I get all settled in I will take some pictures, I promise. :D ( Read more... )

(I keep forgetting to cross-post to LJ... This is the latest blog entry, more can be found at www.rapturina.comWell, I’ve arrived safe and sound in Yantai. The journey from Hong Kong to Yantai was pretty smooth, no problems at all getting into China, so I was all worked up for nothing, as usual. :D ( Read more... )

To NaNoWriMo or not to NaNoWriMo? That is the question ( Read more... )

Big news: I have found a job in China! After the interview I mentioned in my last blogpost I had another Skype interview with a second school. I asked for e-mail addresses from current teachers at both schools (apparently that’s common practice when trying to find an ESL job in China) and I spent about two weeks e-mailing back and forth with those ( Read more... )

If you can guess where the quote in the title comes from, I’ll give you cookies ( Read more... )

This morning I was at the gym* and suddenly it dawned on me that I could learn written Chinese without actually learning any spoken Chinese. So far I have been hesitant about learning to write Chinese. Learning to speak Chinese is daunting enough already, and I thought it might just too ambitious to learn both. I didn’t really get the point of ( Read more... )