less food-related

America, Balloons, florida, less food-related, out and about
Culture of Hijinks
02.16.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Marrying a balloon artist is a bit like navigating a whole new country, a country that smells vaguely of latex, where one finds balloons of various degrees of inflation in pockets, cars, suitcases, and on the ground or floor. The sudden, unexpected ear-splitting pops are not warring gunfire but balloons breaking. And the natives are [...]
America, beijing, huzhou, less food-related, MEAT, musings, Reverse Culture Shock, Shanghai, teaching
In-CAR-ceration
02.11.11 | Permalink | 6 Comments

When I taught college in Huzhou, I used to do a unit on the stages of life: baby, toddler, kid, adolescent, teenager, adult, etc. I used to also teach my students the ages that Americans could drive, buy cigarettes, vote, and drink. They were always amazed that the drinking age is 21, as there is [...]
America, less food-related
Shock, Culture, Reverse.
02.02.11 | Permalink | 8 Comments

It is with a sheepish enthusiasm that I return, at last, to Plate of Wander. It has now been almost 4 full months since I left China and began my life in Florida. Florida. I had never been to Florida prior to moving here, but I thought of it as another adventure, another frontier yet [...]
less food-related, Shanghai, travel
Coming and Going
09.27.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

I hope to live out my life as a series of comings and goings, which are really the same things, and this week is my time of leaving and arriving. Though my decision to leave was peppered with the guilt of leaving my job, my cutie kindergartners, and my friends, it is the right one. [...]
huzhou, less food-related, Shanghai, students, teaching
Revival
08.09.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

Daytime soaps deliberately leave the greatest cliffhangers for Friday so that the viewer must suffer through the weekend wondering just who is the father of Theresa’s baby or if Louis will ever find out that poor Sheridan is locked in Beth’s basement and that the baby Beth is ‘pregnant’ with is, in fact, a sack [...]
Balloons, huzhou, less food-related, students, teaching
Latex Bribery
06.01.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Teaching, I imagine, has quite a few similarities to parenting. Parents see their kids at home acting out, letting manners slip, saying and doing things they would never do around others. Then when they’re out in the world, they’re prefect angels and parents are like, “What? My kid?” Last week I had the bittersweet pleasure [...]
Balloons, less food-related, Shanghai
Twist and Shout
05.24.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

It is said in local laowai circles that China seems to attract a somewhat higher percentage of weirdos. While I’ve certainly met my share of creepy, strange, and/or weird foreigners, I find that one reason I like the expat community is that I have a greater chance of meeting someone really interesting. Of course there [...]
amuse bouche, From the Mouths of Babes, huzhou, less food-related, students, teaching
On Lady Gaga and Enlightenment
05.20.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Since my brain has been bled pretty dry in terms of lesson plan ideas, I had my kids make dialogues in class today. Little did I know it was time for the teacher to become the student. In three separate dialogues, the kids exclaimed, “Oh my Lady Gaga!” This is new, red hot catch phrase [...]
huzhou, less food-related, Shanghai
The Bird of Time Has But a Little Way to Fly
04.27.10 | Permalink | 10 Comments

If you’ve studied your Plate of Wander history, you know that Huzhou has not been the easiest place to live. I’ve known it was time to leave for quite a few months now. And now that the school year is about 6 weeks away from ending, my official clock is counting down. Though Huzhou has [...]
Cambodia, less food-related, Parks, temples, travel
Encore Wat
02.22.10 | Permalink | 9 Comments

It’s kind of hard to write about what it’s like to see one of the wonders of the world in person. I mean, I can think of plenty of blah-blah adjectives like magnificent, spectacular, breathtaking, humbling, powerful, stunning, unforgettable. But what do all of those really meant? They’re essentially pretty-sounding synonyms for “Whoa, cool.” As [...]

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less food-related

America, Balloons, florida, less food-related, out and about

Culture of Hijinks

America, beijing, huzhou, less food-related, MEAT, musings, Reverse Culture Shock, Shanghai, teaching

In-CAR-ceration

America, less food-related

Shock, Culture, Reverse.