Oddly enough, most anything that "breaks" in China can be fixed. On Wednesday, ayi was making us rice and in the middle of cooking the rice, the microwave must have stopped sending out little microwaves. It continued to spin and the light was still on,...

In China, there are several expressions of raining. There is mao mao rain, light rain, medium rain, and heavy rain. I don't know if my definition of a light rain is the same as a Chinese person's definition of light rain. Given that they carry an...

oops.... do people even still say that. Anyway, I felt like I scored some good stuff today. First, it is Monday, and that means burgers at the Blue Frog and buy one get one free. Plus, we were there for happy hour and it was buy one get one free.... so...

are so much more fun than the good ones!!!! Today 5/9 bad students showed up for the class, I was told that the others had to attend a lecture. I am not sure if they were telling the truth or what, but I don't care. So I asked the bad students if they...

I recently (September) read her book "Life and Death in Shanghai" and I found it to be one of the most amazing books I have read. It is the story of her 6 year imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution. She was innocent, and yet kept in solitary...