Category: Life in Xining
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anna’s xuexiao (school)…if you can find it
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anna’s class…where are the kids?
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Normally we pick Anna up from school before lunchtime. She usually eats at home with us. Sometimes we don’t make it to the school before they start lunch. Today Christa arrived as they were begining to feed them. She said as soon as Anna and her Norwegian friend saw Christa arrive to pick them up,…
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Some friends invited us to a "western" restaurant tonight (believe it or not we do eat dinner at home every now and then.) I absolutely love going to these places because the eating establishments almost always attempt to provide menus that are written in English. I use the term English very lightly. After seeing a…
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We don’t! At least not the good ole’ American variety that I am partial to. I’ve been craving it lately, too. The do have milk here, but the kind they sell in the supermarkets is that processed/boxed variety that has a half-life nearly as long as that of a Twinkie (which we know is measured…
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I called his cell phone in the afternoon. It was the first time we had ever spoken. I was a bit nervous… You might say he was a friend of a friend. Norman was the name I had jotted down on the scrap of paper. When my friend called me on Friday she told me…
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Sorry for the lengthy post yesterday regarding my many mishaps. I got a little carried away, but like I said it was a very strange day that continued on into the very early morning hours. I’ll try to keep this edition a little more concise… (Oh, who am I kidding?) Stanza five: I lost (big…
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Today my life played out like a country western song. A very weird, often absurd, cross-cultural and laughable country western song (if there can be such a thing.) I can’t stomach country music myself (the one exception being Johnny Cash–I’m listening to him right now for inspiration); even though I was born and spent many…
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Well, today was the first day of the big Sports Meet at the college that I am attending. They call it a Sports Meet. I would call it a track meet. Basically, it’s three or four days where students compete in track and field events. For the past two or three weeks, we’ve been made…
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