Saturday, 19 Apr 2008 | Views [415] | Comments [2]
What is there to say? China's been great, I've been learning so much, enjoying my life here, and staying thoroughly occupied - as the lack of journal entries might have already indicated...but when it's time to go home, it's time to go home. I will ... Read more >
Sunday, 23 Mar 2008 | Photo Gallery
These are the floppiest, laziest, cutest freakin' animals on the planet.
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Friday, 21 Mar 2008 | Photo Gallery
Notice the sticky notes on everything. Yup, evidence of my attemps to learn Mandarin.
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Friday, 21 Mar 2008 | Views [421] | Comments [1]
Chinese is not easy. In fact the very idea of it makes my head spin. It’s the tones. And the characters. And the classifiers. And the pronunciation of ‘ü’ and ‘r’ and ‘e’ and the nasal ‘n.’ And those damn tones.
Case in point: today I ran out ... Read more >
Tags: communication
Saturday, 15 Mar 2008 | Photo Gallery
My new home
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Friday, 14 Mar 2008 | Views [1224] | Comments [2]
So I live in China. That might be a surreal statement coming from a shy and anxious blue-eyed art dork, but it feels completely perfect and natural. Well, maybe not completely...but to say, 'I'm making a seamless transition' might be a more appropriate ... Read more >
Tags: china, toilet adventures
Saturday, 23 Feb 2008 | Views [804] | Comments [1]
To catch up on the past week or so.... From Tokyo I flew to the Guangzhou airport, where I spent a chilly night, that morning I journaled the following while waiting for the bus to Zhuhai: They don't heat the Guangzhou airport. Thus, it’s cold inside, ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
