Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
Today is the first day of what amounts to a nation wide spring break here in China. The first week of May is a national holiday and when 1.3 billion people only have 3 nationally recognized holidays with actual time off work for basically the entire population you can bet that it’s one of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Well, like I said before there would be plenty more great food stories to come…
But first, our Saturday morning/afternoon was filled with great fellowship with our UME CORE group. I mentioned in a previous blog about the UME marriage weekend and the great follow-up group that Amy and I are in, and yesterday we all [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Ok,
this is another one for those of you interested in eating here in China, and it’s from our time in the central China area. I think there are enough of these stories to make up some kind of category for them or something but I’m just not industrious or ambitious enough yet about this blog thing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’m not sure what to say about the tragedy at Virginia Tech, I’m sitting here at home right now after a day at work (a day in which many conversations with other teachers have centered on what happened), and I’ve read a few news reports. I’ve also read a few comments from people who were [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
Ok, I know I’m biased but I also know that being an unabashed, unequivocal crazy fan of your kid is one of the absolute best things about being a Dad. So it is with a grain of salt that you should read the following line: at this point Caleb is a very good basketball player. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2007 No Comments »
We had an exciting and kind of fun foray into ZhuJiaJiao, a place near Shanghai that is rather strangely called the “Venice of China”. Now I’ve never been to Venice personally but I have it on good authority that Venice is , well let’s just say a little more…well just more, than ZhuJiaJiao. It just [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Ok, here is another great and funny example of communication faux-paus here in China. A great multi-cultural couple who meets with us on the weekend, has been blessed with the upcoming birth of their first child. Naturally the foreign ladies here got together with the local ladies to plan a baby shower. About halfway through [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
Warning: there are no profound statements planned for this “blog” entry so keep reading at your own risk.
Tonight we spent time as a family celebrating the passover festival. I know we did it about 3 days late and that of course we aren’t Jewish (and if you are Jewish and happen to be reading this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Ok, I think the pattern for these “blogs” is going to be that they are mainly written on the weekend. HAPPY EASTER by the way. We spent last night playing games with some students who are at our school through sponsorship from an organization that seeks to help orphans. They are all from central China [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Hey again everyone,
Just an update and a question all rolled into one: have you ever been involved in a field trip? More specifically one involving about 600 students and over 700 people total (17 tour buses) including faculty and parent chaperones, to a zoo about an hour away ~ in a foreign language ~ where [...]