Category Archives: in china

It’s been a rather fruitful day. My most prominent achievement today was finally tracking down the ever illusive Moneygram Agent whom I’ve been trying to locate since last November. They have now moved to proper premises, sort of where you’d … Continue reading →

Got woken up this morning by my ringing phone. What was worse is it rang some 20 minutes before my alarm would have gone off. That to me is the worst time to be disturbed by a phone call. Phone … Continue reading →

I’m adding this entry after the fact and lying a bit about the date as I totally forgot to enter it. At least I’m honest about it. My birthday, yesterday, started off a bit slow and at first I thought … Continue reading →

They say things happen in threes. I’m much one for listening to them, but when they’re right, they’re right. On a whim, I google an old, old friend with whom I first terminated contact with, and later lost track off. … Continue reading →

I’ve been surfing at an Internet cafe recently. Many reasons, actually, but the main one is that the Internet at school has become as reliable as the date on which we get paid. The network has been more down than … Continue reading →

Here’s my latest venture into Chinese music. This one is a very catchy tune. I first heard it in the dance club we frequented in Shiyan, Heaven on Earth ( 天上人间 ) during the holidays, and since then, everywhere. So, … Continue reading →

Recently the food here at school has been VERY, VERY salty indeed. I usually like my food rather bland, so I endured it for as long as I could. Last night, fairly hungry, I queued and waited for dinner. After … Continue reading →

As it turns out, today it snowed quite a lot here in Shiyan. In fact, if I can site my unscientific observations, I do believe it was about 6 cm (I swiped away a chunk of snow off one of … Continue reading →

Shiyan is not unlike Cape Town. There is a certain expectancy of what the weather should do, but absolutely no guarantee that that is in fact what the weather will do. This last week, for instance, I have been preparing … Continue reading →

My TEFL Course is paying off, because I am able to plan my lessons a lot better and they are much more interesting. The acid test will be what they will do (or won’t do) to my salary. The downside … Continue reading →