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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles: April 2006
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles. Friday, April 21, 2006. Carr on me, carr on me. I'm sure a few of you are hoping so. To know how to be properly obscene in any language. The students will query, to which I respond, "What? Did you say something? We spent the rest of the class practicing the art of leaving messages on an answering machine. Some of them were pretty creative. "Hello Jay. This is your girlfriend. Why you not call me today? Tell me. I so. I'm not sure, but I didn't have to go anymore. 15 Roman...
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles: February 2006
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles. Tuesday, February 28, 2006. Theme of the year: walk don't run. Life moves a bit slower in Yanji. Books: "Where is this taking place, in Calcutta? So what am I doing with all this free time? I read books that I want to read, which I haven't done in years. I go for walks. I go out to eat, often alone. I grow facial hair. All of these are perfectly acceptable activities for a man three times my age. Seriously, am I not living the life of a retiree? Amidst the simple pace of ...
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles: September 2005
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles. Tuesday, September 27, 2005. I have a week of vacation that begins this Friday. They have decided to cancel afternoon classes for the second week in a row, another cruel twist of fate for me. I teach four classes on Fridays, and they happen to be in the first four periods. It's kind of like working a full shift and then being told you don't have to work overtime. Him: "When do you celebrate American independence? Me: "July 4th.". Of course. Next week.". On Sunday afternoo...
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles: January 2006
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles. Tuesday, January 24, 2006. Our run-in with culinary toxicity in Bangkok was frustrating not merely for all physical discomforts that resulted. After five days, we left the city without having seen much, hoping that greener, more sanitary pastures awaited us in Cambodia. Them: "Ah, Western food.". Me: "Um, we live in Northern China.". Them: "Oh, understood.sorry.". We arrived in Siem Reap rather sapped from three hours of Cambodian "roads," which would be considered accept...
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles: March 2006
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles. Friday, March 31, 2006. I came to Yanji with nary a clue what I'd be teaching. On the first day on the job, the department supervisor took me to my first class, introduced me in Chinese, and then smiled and wished, "good luck! She scurried out and slammed the door behind, hoping to distance herself from the oncoming trainwreck. Forty bright eyed Chinese youngsters waited for my next move. But, for the life of me, I can't decide if the writers and illustrators are hopeless...
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles: November 2005
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles. Sunday, November 27, 2005. Malleable coolies and the hacky sack attack. There are five Americans at the school: Long and myself, one of the Salesians, and his brother and sister-in-law. The latter three are all over the age of seventy. And some plum vodka that cost less than a dollar for the bottle. That said, I began helping with the Thanksgiving preparations on Wednesday. Offers more details if you're interested. The practice was slowly phased out with the end of the Qi...
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles: December 2005
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles. Saturday, December 31, 2005. Keep spending most our lives teachin in the worka's paradise. Sung to the tune of Coolio's original:. Tell my why,. Of pronouncing the letter 'l',. Keep spending most our lives teachin in the worka's paradise,. Keep spending most our lives teachin in the worka's paradise.". Hey guys, come rook! Hammer and Rong giva da grades! It rook different today." I explained to them that I'd been unable to shower because our water was not operating pr...
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles: August 2005
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles. Saturday, August 27, 2005. What great fun bureaucratic politics are. After waiting for several months for my visa to arrive, I was informed one week prior to my departure for China that I would have to fill out a special form and deliver it in person to a Chinese embassy or consulate. Fortunately, there is one in Chicago. Her: "Must be pretty boring in Moline, eh? Posted by John @ 3:32 PM. Tuesday, August 23, 2005. Fr Schwarzenegger (not his real name), whom I described i...
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles: July 2005
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Hats, Posters, and Beer Bottles. Saturday, July 30, 2005. Ah, this is such a sterile place right now. Let the decay commence. So with the big university degree in hand, what's the current track? I think I will try to relay at least one humorous story in most of my future posts. Here's today's:. Posted by John @ 9:12 AM. Yanji, Jilin Province, China. View my complete profile. Zaijian, Yanji. After I lived in my parents b. Best of the Rest. Throughout the . Laying Low. Im headed home soo.
