Well, I guess its time for an update.
Hello again everyone! So glad you're back with me for another adventure in the strange place known as China. I'll try to keep my posts fresh and frequent.
Life is settling back in. I haven't spent a great deal of time at my own apartment. The other four members of my team live across town. My roommate and I have been spending more than a fair share of our time over there. I've done some exploring and some chauffeuring with the newbies. I think they are acclimating nicely. We've been keeping it chill and very lounge-erific. Which I like, and could do indefinitely, especially in this heat! The weather has been sweaty with the occasional downpour rain. Today, the smog has blown out a bit, so we have semi clear skies, but that just means the sun beats down with even more of a vengeance. Ai-yo!
I'm loving the food. Getting back into the rice, noodles, ningao, and my favorite (for the moment) jia-jiao. Jia-jiao is fried dumplings. They are crispy and meaty, and go oh-so-well with spicy sauce.
I am having a bit of re-culture shock. Not in the sense that everything is new and weird, but in that everything is not quite as I remembered it. Somethings are better than I remember, like the food, but others are worse than I remember, like the filth. But, hey, that's China. =)
Nothing too exciting is happening as we're adjusting to life in China. I believe we are having a bunch of friends from Hangzhou and Shanghai down this weekend for the holiday, and then I get my teaching schedule on the 10th and school starts the 15th. It'll be a new experience teaching college students, and I'm anxious to see my schedule (which also determines the campus I'll be teaching at).
Stay cool out there! [I'm sitting about 18inches from an osculating fan right now myself]
Until next time.
Sounds like you are doing ok. Keep cool & wear your mask. Wash your hands alot but you know all about those things. Been a little rainy. your Mom & girls prob. got a little wet yest. on holiday. WARM today. Grandpa is baling the grass! ness back to school today as a SENIOR! Hope she has a good year. Kay & I had it out finally. I lost it after 1 too many ultimatums!!! I might as well not even have a grandson...not trusted do do anything except babysit!! J.C. loves the new DVD...Rio 2. Learning to be a HISTORIAN! Have to give workshop in couple weeks. No easy office! SAD NOTE....Heather passed away yest. Funeral on Fri. Got to see her right away when I got home from Charlotte. So Sad :) Love you & take care of yourself. Happy teaching!! xoxoxox
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