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Please ignore this post
Please ignore this post. I just needed a place to put this image where it could be accessed by people not logged in to FB, and I currently don't have editing access to my web page.
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Reflections on Persecution
Americans don't know what persecution is. Well, White Americans, anyway ( Read more... ) -
2020 Winter Vacation Part 1
01/17
[January 17, Harbin to Jakarta (click to open)]Today started out painfully early as I had to get up at 3:45 to get out of the house in time. Even living as close to the third ring road as I do, it's still about an hour to the airport. It didn't help that I had decided, if I packed in time, that I would go out to trivia at the expat hangout for once. I wanted to wax artsy-fartsy with ( Read more... ) -
Locked Out by Proxy
Well, it would seem that LiveJournal is now blocked by the Great Firewall. Not a big deal because I have a great working VPN, but it's frustrating, because the whole reason I dusted off my LJ was in order to have an easy way to make quick posts without having to use a VPN ( Read more... ) -
Mudanjiang and Jianpohu Dragon Boat Festival weekend trip Part I
So I've been promising to write a report about the trip I took with my friend, Aiden, to Mudanjiang and the Jianpohu Underground Caves, and today I have a stack of work that I need to get done but don't really want to do, so of course now's the time to waste an entire afternoon and evening writing a trip report instead of grading students' papers. ( Read more... ) -
LSD: Long, Slow, Distance run
It's been a while since I posted anything here, and I just wrote a great entry elsewhere about my run this morning, that I thought worth sharing. Just like my run, I intended to just write a little bit, and it kept getting longer and longer...
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"If you come to my country, you should learn the language" and other immigration myths.
I've heard it all my life. I've even said it myself. This demand on immigrants that if they're in my country, they should learn my language. And then I became a teacher, and my perspective changed ( Read more... ) -
Honk, Honk, Hooooooonk!
Sometimes, it seems like drivers in Harbin think that their car can't stop of they don't hit the horn. And some of them even think that their car won't stay standing of their horn isn't working: "Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....ooooooooonk! Oh, green light! ZooooooOOOOOOOOM!" -
Ikea Unboxing: The New Couch
I like Ikea. I go there at least once a month. The food is tasty, and the deals are great. Especially, Ikea prices are ridiculously cheap in China! It's just a shame that I had to wait until I moved to China to finally go to an Ikea ( Read more... ) -
Day of the Dead
Tomorrow is the start of Tomb Sweeping Festival (清明节, Qīngmíng) here in China. It's a public holiday, so for us Americans that pretty much means, we get a couple extra days off, sort of. We have to make up Friday's classes on Sunday. I don't know what happens to Thursday's classes, but we don't have to make them up. So, whatever. Pretty much ( Read more... )