Dated 27 Aug, 2006.

This has been the Week of Sickness. The first day of work, I was pretty okay. The school is a huge, three storeybook castle, where all the cute little preschool kids (some are only two!) come and go. It's a Montessori school, except that most of the teachers are unfamiliar with the Montessori method. I followed an outgoing ( Read more... )

As many of my friends know, I went to China to work as an English language instructor for one year. I landed August 15, 2006. I emailed this on August 20, 2006.

Ni hao,
My first day in China, I was locked in the apartment and began a daredevil escape eleven stories in the air before the cook returned and opened the door. My first impressions of China ( Read more... )