crap. i should have read the directions before trying to deal with my ipod. how mafan ( Read more... )

this is it--the last normal week here. my last week of routine. nathaniel and mark and darnell and bill and george leave friday. goodbye dinner wednesday. my week is going to be crazy with all the papers i need to check ( Read more... )

i was surprised again last night. a few of my students are fairly candid with me now, i think. i had this idea that people here, especially young people, would have no idea what i was talking about if i ever mentioned "the incident at tienanmen square." i still think that'd be true of a good number of my students, but margaret totally knew what i ( Read more... )

so... ok, i'm deciding what i want to do for class this week. i've decided to go ahead and talk it out on here. maybe i can even decide what i want to do next week too, which would take the pressure off next weekend.

( planning my last classes here )

i could hardly sleep the last couple nights thinking of all the things i have to look forward to right now. my parents come here tuesday morning. after that, only one month of teaching left, which should be fun. traveling with paul the first bit of july right before i leave. then it's europe for five weeks, kicking off with a week in england, a ( Read more... )

i'm so sick of hearing "edelweiss" sung in chinese played over and over so loud you can't help but hear it in every building on campus. every night they play it in the square just outside my room and students practice their waltzing. every night the past week or so. for maybe a couple hours at a time. the chinese have this troublesome tendency to ( Read more... )