CHINA | Wednesday, 15 Apr 2015 | Views [421] | Comments [1]
Our way of operating has been slow to adjust. We tend to ask a question or pose a possibility to see how things would work. As soon as we mention anything, our hosts create a plan, jumping into action. When we consider the situation and choose differently, ... Read more >
Tags: city farming, country kitchen restaurant, generosity, hangzhou downtown, neighborhood blight, wealth, west lake
CHINA | Monday, 13 Apr 2015 | Views [306]
What an enormous change a warm day can make. Sunday is a family day, and our little campus doubles as a public park. Families with young children, and couples with older parents, walk about, set up little tents, have picnics, stoop by the edges of the ... Read more >
Tags: caa campus, century market, cultural character, eating, helpfulness, local streets
CHINA | Monday, 13 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
Staying Local on Campus and in the Market
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Tags: caa campus, century market, local hangzhou
CHINA | Sunday, 12 Apr 2015 | Views [267] | Comments [1]
Plans change as often as they are made here. In fact, plans are like sticks thrown in the water and wherever they go is the plan. For nearly a week we had a “date” and “time” for a meeting at the Dragon Hotel gallery to ... Read more >
Tags: black tea, cultural questions, green tea, longjian tea, longjian tea fields, studio visit, tea tasting
CHINA | Sunday, 12 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
tea at CAA, tea at art studios, tea in fields
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Tags: art studio, tea ceremony, tea fields
CHINA | Saturday, 11 Apr 2015 | Views [322]
It is unfathomable that we were on our way here last Friday, and yet, here it is the end of the first week of teaching. Our sleep schedule is still unusual – falling asleep early, waking in the early morning for a while and then returning to sleep ... Read more >
Tags: housekeeping, rectilinear assignment, tea merchants, walking campus
CHINA | Friday, 10 Apr 2015 | Views [365]
Housekeeping and setting up the studio space defined the morning today. We smell sewage in the bathroom and it appears to us that the seal on the toilet is leaking… that wax ring on which the toilet sits should seal off all odor and moisture. ... Read more >
Tags: buying wool, communication, rectilinear assignment, tea, teaching, young artists in china
CHINA | Thursday, 9 Apr 2015 | Views [438]
Early morning is a sweet time for organizing thoughts and watching the gray light change texture. Still cloudy but not raining. We had petite dejeuner around 6 AM of sliced mango, Asian pear and peanut butter with strawberry jam on rolls. Sneaky ... Read more >
Tags: daily life, laundry, rectilinear assignment, relational volumes, rowena reed costello, workers
CHINA | Thursday, 9 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
Wandering, workers, our room, and Second Class
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CHINA | Wednesday, 8 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
Class Begins Dot Assignment - Defining Space
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CHINA | Wednesday, 8 Apr 2015 | Views [331]
Still waking up at 2AM. Still raining. Still noodles for breakfast with pickled vegetable, sautéed greens and fruit, with packaged cakes. Walking in the rain, and hiding under cover of the Hotel buliding to give the staff time to clean our room.... Read more >
Tags: adjusting, dot assignment, teaching
CHINA | Sunday, 5 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
Tea Market Wanderings
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Tags: bamboo, hangzhou tea market, street market
CHINA | Sunday, 5 Apr 2015 | Views [308]
Still adjusting to the new time zone, we found ourselves eating slices of mango with a handful of cashews at 2 AM, but went back to sleep until after 6. Our hotel offers breakfast late on Sunday, with similar things (noodles, eggs, fruit, rice porridge) ... Read more >
Tags: air quality, hangzhou, longjian tea, new century market
CHINA | Saturday, 4 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
arriving, eating. walking around the hotel area
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Tags: architecture, food, hangzhou
CHINA | Saturday, 4 Apr 2015 | Views [395]
First Night, First Day In Hangzhou
Perhaps because it came after our 15 hour flight, the longest part of arriving seemed to be the 5 hours it took to get from Shanghai to Hangzhou. We passed through customs and our hosts met us without incident, ... Read more >
Tags: architecture, china academy of art, food, hangzhou
CHINA | Saturday, 4 Apr 2015 | Views [397]
Up early and on the bus to Newark airport, we began our adventure. Meeting a pleasant young man from Beijing, we began the halting, laughing, pausing rhythm of speech that is sure to follow for the next month! He looked up words on his phone to talk ... Read more >
Tags: arrival, departure, technology
CHINA | Saturday, 4 Apr 2015 | Photo Gallery
Arrival and exploration
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USA | Monday, 30 Mar 2015 | Views [410] | Comments [1]
To use our new global phone we have had to take the plunge into the icy waters of Android out of the skin temperature iPhone world. After some initial research, we found that we had to have a phone that was unlocked (meaning not tethered to one network), ... Read more >
Tags: phones, preparation, sim cards, technology
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