A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog
Teaching. It’s… not me. I’ve thought about it for a bit – since I got here, really – and I’ve kind of come to the conclusion that I’ve got a lot of traits and skills that might make me like a teacher, but that’s not exactly my thing. My enthusiasm for the things here that [...]
It’s been a nutty week or two here, time seems to be flooding by both quickly and slowly. I tell people, “I’m two minds, really, one part of me loves it here and wouldn’t mind staying a bit longer, the other part really misses Kelly and wants to be back with her.” Well, both halves [...]
I leave for Wuhan in a couple hours – Victor will be swinging by my place at 6:30 to collect me, then we’ll be hustling off via train. I’m not sure where in Wuhan we’re going, or what I’ll be doing, or how I’ll be doing it – I’m sorta just going along for the [...]
[Originally written at 9:18 AM, July 23rd
Warning: This is an extremely long post.]
It’s about 9:18 AM and I’ve got a video date with Kelly in about three hours. I could just go down to the school and squat on their internet for the interim, but… I really don’t like just sitting around when everyone else [...]
(Written at 8:58 AM, July 21st)
Ah… my first day to just decompress. To literally just sit and do nothing. My manager/roommate is out in Xi’an for another day or so, so I have the apartment to myself. I managed to figure out how to rig his DVD player and speakers to pump out the Beatles’ [...]
This list is mostly for the benefit of you guys over there. Wherever that might be. I won’t be able to access it tomorrow.
But!
Here’s the Plan:
Sleep in.
Do some writing.
Explore Xiangfan sometime after noon, when the sun is less intense.
Maybe buy a beard trimmer, this thing is getting outta hand.
That is all.
Seriously, that’s all out of [...]
Now that I’ve got the previous post off my chest, I can relate what I wanted to actually talk about.
So, in all my mental agitation over how enormous a span of time the gap between now and February seems, a funny fact came and slapped me across the face. The other foreign teacher, the one [...]
Ugh… this no internet thing is a real bother. I’m still not exactly settled in terms of pacing my life, so updates will be random, backdated, and sporadic for a bit, I think.
One thing that I did want to mention is that my bed is made out of wood. I mean, the mattress is made [...]
We’re a bit busy packing and preparing for our RV trip up to Denali, so I can’t really make too much of a post (though I do have some pictures from my trip to the Zoo yesterday – I’ve got connections to let me see the wolves up close). However, I did more or less [...]
My Own Personal Budget Crisis
Ugh – my immunizations are going to run me, at the very least, $400 bucks. Insurance might cover it, if I’m lucky, but it’s too complicated to tell at this point. Alaska is simultaneously in-network and out-of-network, somehow, like they’re integrated with Washington State or somesuch. Basically, neither Connecticut nor Alaska [...]