http://www.rah-kun.net A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog Sat, 15 May 2010 01:28:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/stream-of-conciousness-endgame-slowboil/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/stream-of-conciousness-endgame-slowboil/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:51:02 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1068 It’s been a bit difficult to fire off entries lately, or at all, really. Things happen so fast here – on a daily basis, for the most part – that stopping to ruminate upon just one thing means I’m probably simultaneously leaving out three or four other things I could be writing about, or I’m [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/02/stream-of-conciousness-endgame-slowboil/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/money-its-a-shame-and-managementfail/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/money-its-a-shame-and-managementfail/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:35:32 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1056 Last week was a particularly trying time: stressful, tiring, annoying, expensive, and long. My brain and presence of mind being what it is, I’ll see what I can do to piece together the events of the last week for your reading pleasure… …the first thing that comes to mind is the big hassle that was my endeavors [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2010/01/money-its-a-shame-and-managementfail/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/12/december-teaching-and-looking-ahead/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/12/december-teaching-and-looking-ahead/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:04:27 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=1003 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 [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/12/december-teaching-and-looking-ahead/feed/ 3 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold-once-more-with-feeling/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold-once-more-with-feeling/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:30:52 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=986 It’s cold. It’s very very cold. It’s been hovering just above freezing since three days ago and there’s a couple inches of snow on the ground. It’s a damp cold of the likes that gets into your bones and doesn’t get out. Ever. My apartment, I’ve discovered, is little more than a hollow concrete shell [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold-once-more-with-feeling/feed/ 10 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:13:43 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=981 Cold. One thing I underestimated in coming here. I didn’t quite underestimate how cold it got, but what kind of cold it became. For once, yesterday is was about 33 degrees (F) outside. And raining. It rains just about every day in Xiangfan, so you can imagine, being middle November, what we’re in store for [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/11/cold/feed/ 0 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/more-on-that-pesky-mid-trip-crisis/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/more-on-that-pesky-mid-trip-crisis/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:31:26 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=947 I’m getting itchy. Like… under my skin. I’m getting tired of a bunch of things here – mainly my inability to form connections due to the language barrier, that damnable wall I hit every time I try to forge some new communication with someone, or when I have a question I want to ask but [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/more-on-that-pesky-mid-trip-crisis/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/this-god-damn-country/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/this-god-damn-country/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:53:43 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=925 …everything is so freaking hard here. Not that I didn’t bring it on myself knowingly coming to a relatively remote city. Nevertheless, the circumstances that keep getting in my way are particularly… I don’t know, it’s like someone’s actively seeking to thwart me. I’ve been pretty down the last couple of days – since my couchsurfer [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/this-god-damn-country/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/its-like-watching-a-trainwreck-in-slowmotion/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/its-like-watching-a-trainwreck-in-slowmotion/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:19:06 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=874 There’s a really subtle brutality to the work that I’m doing here. For any number of reasons, really. First, there’s the promotional aspect, the “dancing bear” routine that the school has me put up quite frequently to flash my foreignness in order to attract business. I mean, I know that just my face is great for [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/its-like-watching-a-trainwreck-in-slowmotion/feed/ 1 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/post-wuhan-preface/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/post-wuhan-preface/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:16:05 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=830 I just gotta get this out of my system before I can give a decent summary of the Wuhan trip. You have to know what I was pretty certain I knew what I was getting into – the details were not there before this trip started, but the otherwise feeling of uncertainty and “Nah, I’m [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/10/post-wuhan-preface/feed/ 2 http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/09/apartment-pictures-riding-the-wave/ http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/09/apartment-pictures-riding-the-wave/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:08:41 +0000 Jayml http://www.rah-kun.net/?p=762 For simplicity’s sake, this is a two part post. First, as promised – here are some photos of my “new” apartment. New, of course, when I took these pictures several weeks ago. And by several weeks, I mean about three weeks ago, almost. And along with that, the view from my window: (and on a rare, clear day:) And, [...]]]> http://www.rah-kun.net/2009/09/apartment-pictures-riding-the-wave/feed/ 8