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• cooking, huzhou, out and about, Parks, students

  A Chicken On Every Stick

  12.22.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I tend to make my job significantly more stressful than it should be, especially since I teach a whopping 12 hours a week. Instead I’m haunted by constant doubt that my class is evenly remotely interesting and that I’m teaching my kids anything at all. There are some days, walking up the steps to the [...]

  

• less food-related, out and about

  Fierce…?

  12.08.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  This is why Tyra would kick me off America’s Next Top Model: (Though I might penalize the photographer for shooting from an angle that make my hips look HUGE and make me look like a giant.) I have one look. And I don’t do it particularly well. Just what is in the upper corners of [...]

  

• animals, entrees, holidays, out and about, restaurants, Shanghai, Thanksgiving

  Generous George and the Eight Chinchilla Souls

  11.22.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Most holidays that last longer than a day require some sort of fasting or deprivation. Passover: no leavened bread. Lent: Give something up. Ramadan: Fast all day. Off the top of my head, I can think of two exceptions: Hanukkah, in its eight latke-filled days and nights, and Thanksgiving. At the moment you may be [...]

  

• Chinese, entrees, huzhou, less food-related, out and about, restaurants

  Elevator Pitch

  11.18.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  It was bound to happen sometime. Hi Ellis, this is Apple from web. Would u mind doing me a favour? My friend’s company in Nanxun need to take some pic. Of 2 foreigners, which will be put on their poster. Well would u like to be the girl model? Coz u r the prettiest foreign [...]

  

• fish, Jeju, Korea, markets, mysterious ingredients, out and about, Seoul, travel

  Reseoulution

  11.12.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I know what you were thinking: Finally. She’s done posting Korea photos. I mean, she’s posting about oatmeal, for Mao’s sake, she must be through with the endless Seoul puns and nearly identical pictures of pickled spicy cabbage. Well, you were wrong. But at least my puns aren’t this bad: I spent my last hours [...]

  

• huzhou, less food-related, out and about, Shanghai

  Songs of a Wayfarer

  11.05.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  We all have regular habits that preserve our sanity. Maybe we find solace in our daily routines. We watch our favorite movie or listen to our favorite song; we follow a run with a piece (or pieces) of chocolate; we have a martini at the end of a long week. When you live in Huzhou, [...]

  

• entrees, fish, Jeju, Korea, mysterious ingredients, out and about, travel

  A la recherche du temps Jeju

  10.31.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Sometimes Life does not cooperate with the general flow of blog posts. Sometimes nothing happens and I have nothing to post about. Sometimes I don’t have time to post, or things are too personal to post. But sometimes, sometimes, I have supersaturated days, where I want to make sure I blog about everything that happened [...]

  

• entrees, Jeju, Korea, mysterious ingredients, out and about, Parks, road trippin', temples, travel

  Kimchi Invasion

  10.22.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  When I was in seventh grade, some of my teachers put together a Europe trip for students that covered something like eight countries in twelve days (though why anyone would want to take a gaggle of twelve- and thirteen-year olds anywhere is beyond me). I, being me, was dying to go. My parents, being logical [...]

  

• entrees, fish, Jeju, Korea, musings, out and about, Parks, travel

  Yay Means Nae

  10.18.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  The way my father tells it, he and 5-or 6-year old Ellis (not yet ellis, but probably around the time I insisted everyone call me Crystal) were at McDonald’s, eating our hamburgers before we were allowed to eat our French Fries. “Dad,” said wee Ellis. “Where do hamburgers come from?” Oh boy. Almost as tough [...]

  

• holidays, Jeju, Korea, less food-related, out and about, Parks, travel

  The 400 Blows

  10.16.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Nearly every time I’ve flown in or from China, I’ve remarked to myself or travel companion just how much more efficient Chinese airports are than American airports. In China, counter check-in begins 90 minutes before domestic flights. Before going through security, passengers have to go through customs-like cubicles, whether they’re flying international or domestic, where [...]

  

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