Rudy is almost here!! My wish came true and my VIP student cancelled today, so I gt off work at 3:30, making it possible for me to take the metro all the way to the airport (I'm on it right now ad ot takes forever to get to the airport.) Today has been good and is about to get even a thousand times better. :D I got my legs and armpits waxed this ( Read more... )

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I just found out that round-trip flights to Manila in April are around 2500 RMB. That's just under $400. This is maddeningly tempting. The problem is, I will want to take some of my vacation days to go there if I decide to go there. I have three days off work at the beginning of April and three days off at the end of April (apart from my ( Read more... )

Two videos for your pleasure, from my sightseeing adventures with Briana last week:


This is a video to show the lights of the Oriental Pearl Tower and the Pudong Skyline, as well as part of the Bund.


And this is the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel. I had no idea what it was, so I paid 50 RMB to find out.

Rudy bought his tickets to visit me in Shanghai in January!! He'll be here January 20-30. I'm so excited! I just hope that work won't conflict much with his visit (I am supposed to work on the 20th and 21st), and I may not be able to pick him up from the airport because of work. But we'll see... we'll make the best of it and these dates worked ( Read more... )

I finally got the exact dates that I'll have off for Chinese New Year! My boss emailed everyone tonight telling us we'll have January 22-28 off! These are the exact dates I thought I would have off, so this is good because they are the dates Rudy and I have been looking up when we look at air fare prices online... so hopefully the fares haven't ( Read more... )

So, while I only get ten days of leave as well as the public holidays off work within the entire year I'm here, there should be a few days here and there that I get off work for random reasons, such as the fact that the school is supposed to be installing interactive white boards in all the classrooms sometime soon. I've heard rumors that it will ( Read more... )

I've been living in China for a whole month now! Craziness ( Read more... )

Sorry I've not been updating here lately. Things have been a bit crazy getting settled in, and when I wanted to update last, my internet didn't want me to access livejournal. We seem to have finally gotten the internet issues sorted out, so I have some reliability with using it and a VPN to use whatever sites I want ( Read more... )

I'm in Shanghai!!! Everything went pretty smoothly. The two worst things of the whole trip were a) the in-flight internet I paid for didn't end up working, and b) I couldn't easily call or email my parents or Rudy right away after arriving ( Read more... )