Our schedule still seems pretty cramped, but i love the opportunity. Today we fulfilled our part of the free-Go-lessons bargain by trying to teach our instructor some english. She already has a half-decent knowledge of english, but with low vocab. I think she might be about the same level of english as [...]
Today was definitely the best day of the trip so far. Jon and i decided to go out to take a look at a Weiqi (aka Go, a strategy board game that we are obsessed with) school that we heard was down the street. Previously, we’d been searching high and low for a [...]
I’m starting to get a little sick of the food that’s easily available to me here. Being vegetarian in china is quite a limitation on the options. It seems like almost every dish has a small amount of meat in it. This differs from the north american style of having every dish [...]
ya, so i guess i haven’t contacted anyone outside of irc lately. i’ve been a bad blogger. my mom even sent me a few emails lately to try to coax me to respond and calm her worrying that i’ve been kidnapped or something. I guess i’m just settling into a routine here. [...]
nothin big goin on, but i had a couple things i wanted to mention.
Bats. it seems the city of Hangzhou has bats everywhere at night. i think this is awesome, but everyone else seems to be like “ho hum, bats, whatev”. I’m trying to figure out a way to take a picture [...]
Finally, we have internet connections in our dorm rooms. I’m pretty sick of trying to use the public computers, since they’re always surrounded by like 3 or 4 koreans who smoke like chimneys. it seems like no place is safe from smokers here, even when there are no-smoking signs. It seems like [...]
This morning’s breakfast was quite a bit easier to order, since i knew a few names of things, and what they contained. I got 2 of these bread-things (”baozi”) with green vegetables (”qing cai”, sorta like baby bok-choi) and mushrooms inside (”cai bao” is what this kind of baozi is called), along with a [...]
6am again. i just wake up like clockwork at 6am every day. who knows why. Last night i went to sleep early at like 9pm, so i guess i got more sleep. Normally i’ve been going to bed at 10:30 to 11pm.
Today we’ve scheduled a rest day in anticipation of everyone [...]
Shang you Tiantang, xia you Su Hang: In heaven, there is
paradise; On earth there are Suzhou and Hangzhou.
15 minutes ago, i was awakened by the sounds and smells of earthly
paradise. All sorts of strange and wonderful bird calls have been
filtering through my window since about 4:30am (it’s 6am now). And
even though there’s still [...]
Back at the hostel again now, although i didn’t expect to be. I had 2
different emails that seemed to indicate that my classmates would be
at the airport today at 3pm, but it’s actually gonna be tomorrow at
3pm. I grabbed a cab near the hostel and went to some place called
Lao Xi Men (old [...]