As time goes by I am starting to forget what it was that annoyed me about some of the students back when I was in China. One thing that I do recall is vacillating between wanting to teach the advanced students and wanting to teach the beginners. I would go through spurts of wanting to…
Category: Life in China
A few months of stupid conversations – Greatest Hit
In my previous posts I talked about my disappointing class as well as the awkward, somewhat crazy opinion of my father. If only that were the extent of it. Composed here is a greatest hits of stupid, disappointing conversations I had over a two month period. *** Venezuelan Student: I don’t understand how (incident) can…
My commute
Growing up as a kid, I was a pretty dedicated pedestrian. I enjoyed walking to places, even though where I grew up there was pretty much nowhere to go that wasn’t the side of a highway. And I tended to get to places, regardless of distance, on my own two damn feet. I had no…
[Photo Dump] Romantic Park done terribly
Nothing gets me going like Chinese incompetence.
Going Native (in China)
When one travels, they tend to pick up some traits of the local people. Americans who live long enough in Italy pick up the Italian mannerisms of dress and food. In two years here I didn’t notice foreigners picking up Chinese mannerisms. And then suddenly I did. Here’s what I didn’t notice. Some time ago…
[Photo Dump] More Fake Scandinavia
More random photos from Fake Sweden
It’s not all bad: My trip to the dentist
It’s 2018: why the hell am I still blogging about China. Well, sorry, but I have a bit of a back log of thoughts, and until I can find something better to post about, we can go through these drafts saved on the site. I’ll try to keep them at best once a month. I…
Fake Scandinavia, a [Photo Dump] in many parts.
“Hey” my friend said to me. “Shanghai has a fake Scandinavia. Let’s go pay that a visit” “Fab” I said. Hey, let’s go check out that castle thing. What could it be?
My take-away from China, and where I am now
I decided to go back to the US after China. I did this for a number of reasons. Anyone following this blog in the coming months will find it a bit all over the place. But let’s just go back to China for a little bit. While I was there and bored out of my…
[Photo Dump] Neighborhood in Renovation
Yea, I know this has nothing to do with the new year. But it turns out that I have a lot of these photo dumps left to put up.
The incompetence erruption point
I want you to take a moment and really look at that picture above. If I asked you what the problem the person in the picture is having, I assume you would be able to answer the question. It wouldn’t be too difficult, would it? Well you would be wrong. That it turns out, is…
Locus Horribilis 