Since I need to box my crap up and ship it down south (“to where Becky?” I hear you ask. I’ll announce my new China home soon I just want to wait till I have a contract in hand till I consider it official.) I’ve been cleaning up and throwing
The End of an Era
Today I taught my last class at Zhejiang Agriculture and Foresty University. It was 2nd year students from Survey of English Speaking Countries. I still have paper work to submit, and all the annoying bits of teaching but that’s it…I’m done with class. I started in the fall of 2009
Today is Just a Normal Day
Today is just a normal day. Nothing too exciting going on here. Think I’ll grab a cup of tea and re-watch the latest Game of Thrones episode. (Man, how awesome was last weeks ending?!) It’s just a normal, boring, every day kinda day today. Well, have a good day
Another Insane Coincidence
So, about a year ago I wrote how I randomly met a guy from my hometown and what an unbelievable crazy coincidence it was. Well, I got a story that can top it now. A few weeks ago I was talking to my mom and she mentioned she ran into
Graduation Weekend
If you’ve read this blog even a little you probably have a good idea of how much I love my students. I was going to write a summed up blog post called Ode to my Students, but then I realized that this entire blog was an ode to them, and
When you Just Can't Take Life in China–or Pulling a Runner
So here’s a recent situation of my friend. She was working in a school for little kids and had been there for years. She had to deal with some bureaucratic bull we all go through, but as hers was a private (aka: expensive) school she had less freedom then I do
An Unexpected Semester
I had decided, more than a year ago, that this year would be my last year. I’m not going to leave China, but I’m going to leave the city I’ve called home for the past five years. So I made a plan. First semester was all about my students. I
Guess Who's Into (a) K-Drama!
Yes people, it’s true. I’ve had many false starts over the years, but I finally got into a k-drama. (K-drama stands for korean drama.) Now, I won’t go so far to say I’m a k-drama fanatic or anything, because I’ve watched the first episodes of a few different series and
Aaaaaaand, it's leaking
I know this is, like, the most boring blog series ever, but I’ve somehow written about my leaking bathroom several times now, so I thought I’d write one more update. So last you heard they re-routed my hot water from the pipes in the way, to some plastic, jerry-rigged piping.
Yes Virginia, Chinese People DO Protest
Yesterday in my Weixin “moments” (similar to ‘the wall’ in Facebook) a number of bloody/riot pictures started showing up. Men clutching their bleeding heads, hundreds of people marching down the highway and other pictures which aroused my curiosity. Then a foreign friend was going to the airport called me