Category: Life in Xining
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It sounds so ominous, doesn’t it? But before you get too alarmed I should probably clarify that I was not the patient. Neither were any members of our immediate family. (Not to be too self-focused!) Unfortunately, our Norwegian neighbor, oh, let’s just call him Tomas (seems arbritary enough) was not so lucky. I got a…
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This is Zhang laoshi; my Spoken Chinese teacher. I thought I should post a picture of her because it’s Sunday evening here (almost) and I’m already mourning the end of my weekend. Monday tomorrow (ugh!) Do you think this class looks warm and cozy? My classmates and I are talking about chipping in to buy…
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Well…did you miss me? You’d better have responded with a resounding, "Yes!" to that question rather than a somewhat confused, "What? Were you ever gone?" It’s been three days since my last blog post. I guess things got busy this week (in a good way…) Did you ever have one of those days where it…
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we have a living room!
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art on the walls, a sampling
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feet friendly carpet
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38 high, 9 low (i.e. degrees!)
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I doubt they had any, but I thought these guys looked like they were combatting the adverse effects of too much turkey. It’s gotten colder outside since I secretly took these pictures, but it’s not uncommon to see the old-timers outside exercising early in the morning. These were taken in front of a car lot…
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"the moon walk" resurgence
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I call this "the airplane lavatory" pose
yeti speak... 