My God. That was absolute shit. I just taught my first real class ever. I- I seriously don’t know what the fuck I’m doing here in China. It seems like I learned nothing from the TEFL course I took. I couldn’t explain jackshit. Active and passive voice, for [...]
God. There goes the one guy I was just starting to lean on. Been here for 6 months, Taiwanese-Canadian, spoke Chinese and all. And then, the clown of this bunch is leaving, too, both before their contracts were even up. (I wonder what that means.) So I really don’t know [...]
I dunno. I guess I’m feeling a little better now. But just a little. I still can’t even order food. So far, it’s been KFC and wherever everyone else goes, I go.
Well, I guess it’s a start that I actually wandered around the city tonight. More or less aimlessly in [...]
So I got to Hangzhou and to my apartment without any problems. A driver had met me at the Shanghai airport, holding up a sign that said “EDDY CHIN.” Ha.
Thing is, … Well, the thing is, …
Yesterday, I was dreadfully afraid to step outside my apartment. And so for most of [...]
Minutes from landing in Shanghai. Oh boy. Here we go …
And now I sit in my departure gate in Osaka, waiting to be completely bombarded with culture shock in mere hours. I didn’t feel this when I was going to Egypt, I didn’t feel it when I came to Japan six years ago. But I feel it now.
It all feels so different this [...]
The food court in the JAL terminal at Honolulu International smells Japanese. I’m surrounded by them now, all with their dyed brown hair. There’s a girl to my right in a red sundress with a flower tattoo above her breast. Tattoo …
Sigh … This time around, traveling seems much more of [...]
I’ve been meaning to leave a comment addressing my fellow Conartist(ry), Diana’s, old posting about the 2 types of Asians in Missouri for a while now. (Which, by the way, kiddo, was quite insightful. ) But I decided to make a posting of it here so that this topic might get out [...]
I’m in L.A. now, with Alex. And I lost my fuckin’ voice. Hooray.
Jesus, talk about taking off at the last minute. I wasn’t expecting my tickets until tomorrow, so when my brother wakes me up at around 2 p.m. or so saying that a Fed Ex guy’s at the door, all of a sudden I’m in a flurry of activity. I jump online to find [...]