Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
Well I have had some technical difficulties with my pictures blog in the US, but here in China I can’t even get to the site. I have just posted a link to the page on the right of this blog, but I’m not promising it will work perfectly yet. Hopefully Stateside everyone can read it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
Soleil and I woke up about 4:00 am this morning and ate a breakfast of gorp and pretzels. Adjusting to a time zone that is precisely the opposite of where you have been is, to say the least, jarring. Luckily, we had plenty of sleep on the flight over. Only bad movies were playing and [...]
Posted in Goals on Jun 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Today I opened a book entitled, Oracle Bones, by Peter Hessler. Hessler is a nonfiction writer telling the story of how China’s ancient historical traditions and the race for modernity live side by side. As we pack to leave for our China stay this summer I’m thinking about the wonderful ways that language learning has [...]
Posted in Introductions on Jun 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
When I was growing up we thought if we could dig a hole straight through the earth we end up in China. I later found out that the exact opposite of Iowa was probably somewhere in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Nevertheless, China was about as far away as I could imagine, and Chinese [...]
