(Regular blog isn't working right now so am writing here briefly until I can get back in)

So we are back in rainy Kandy, smack dab in the middle of the Esala Perahera festival. I don't have my guide book with me to remind me what exactly it's about it the nightly procession starts at the Temple of the Tooth near the lake, so let's venture a guess ( Read more... )

 I'm at work so can't access Facebook or Twitter but just wanted to send out a really huge OMFG Yay! to my cousin who just had a baby, most unexpectedly.  Brava, Waycho, brava!

I want to go home *sadface*

 I'm being almost embarrassingly lazy today- well, today after my morning spent studying Chinese intensively for 4 hours straight. By hour 3 I couldn't quite think straight. Every thing just sounded, well, the same. I'm tired. I'm tired from having spent the weekend doing Lucrative Speaking Tests and I'm tired from having been up all night with ( Read more... )

 So, as you know I'm back in Shanghai's endless toaster oven. My pukey post-Myanmar tummy bug cleared up just in time for my intensive Chinese course, so I've not had to work on my tones and on not keeling over at the same time.  I'm actually enjoying being in the learning seat for once- the teachers at my school are good, surprisingly good. I had ( Read more... )

 Hello all, I'm back in the wifi hi-speed ether! Photos will be uploaded, stuff will be written; for now I need my bed.  How wonderful it is to open a web page and see it load in under ten minutes!

 I'll possibly be very absent for the next 26 days or so, depending on the whims of the Burmese censors. We're flying down to Guangzhou tonight, then to Yangon tomorrow morning. It's all very trippy.


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 So we have internet at home at last.  I no longer have to run off to faraway cafes with wifi to load up a bunch of pages to read at my leisure at home (and then run out and have to actually read a book or sit quietly and stare at the walls or mark papers or something). Yesterday was a big utilitarian day full of necessary things.  We've got a ( Read more... )

 I just finished my last class of the year. It was thoroughly anticlimactic- no gifts or goodbyes or banquets (makes me nostalgic for my more isolated kids out at Ocean last year who felt bonded enough as groups to want to organize end of year festivities).  My guys bounded out the door for the most part, leaving only a few keeners behind to ask ( Read more... )

 Hello, remember me? I'm the person who used to inhabit the intarwebs with great regularity before dropping off the face of the universe as soon as we moved flats. We are still officially without net at home but the application process has been kicked off, as of yesterday. Our lovely landlord Peng Tao (I love his name- the Peng bit sounds like the ( Read more... )

 Our miniature 3 day non holiday has ended and I'm back at work. Today is my big, long, scary Thursday- 6 hours of teaching between 8am and 5pm. Luckily it is a 2 day week so the weekend is very much in sight.

All is quite quiet on the online front- we still haven't got internet at home (it's complicated and will continue to be so) and Wagas had ( Read more... )