Wednesday, July 20, 2005
current events
just thought i'd throw out a quick lil spot on what i'm doing right now and whence i'm going in the near future. so, i'm in kunming, yeah. i'm currently aprocess of applying for astudying chinese here at yunnan normal university. i've just got to get my visa taken care of (tomorrow) and buy some books and shtuff and i'm all set. i just scored an apartment which i am splitting with a guy named kyle who currently goes to oklahoma university. 500 yuan apiece and it's pretty close to the school. i can't complain, especially since it was so easy to grab, practically in my lap.
i'm really excited about studying again, since i've been pretty much mentally stagnant for the past year in terms of language. the scout oath doesn't apply when you're in china i guess. but now i can just dive into the language and apply it in all walks of life. it just don't get much better.
i have a new celphone number but don't feel it appropriate to put it in my blog. if you want it, email me. or just email me and i'll call you. that works too.
so, for the next couple of weeks, i'll just be methodically working my way around kunming, not straying too far sans passporte (how does one say passport in french, i added the e for fun, but i dunno.) when i get my huzhao back, it'll be open season for me, time to fly.
not much else really going on. transition period and all, leaving teaching to pursue learning again, back to the life of the mind. climate changes, bacterial changes, dialect changes, everything is a little bit different, but certainly recognizable for what it is. a china is a china by any other name.
i'm really excited about studying again, since i've been pretty much mentally stagnant for the past year in terms of language. the scout oath doesn't apply when you're in china i guess. but now i can just dive into the language and apply it in all walks of life. it just don't get much better.
i have a new celphone number but don't feel it appropriate to put it in my blog. if you want it, email me. or just email me and i'll call you. that works too.
so, for the next couple of weeks, i'll just be methodically working my way around kunming, not straying too far sans passporte (how does one say passport in french, i added the e for fun, but i dunno.) when i get my huzhao back, it'll be open season for me, time to fly.
not much else really going on. transition period and all, leaving teaching to pursue learning again, back to the life of the mind. climate changes, bacterial changes, dialect changes, everything is a little bit different, but certainly recognizable for what it is. a china is a china by any other name.
