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There is a lot going on at the moment in my life. I don’t seem to get around to making blog postings until it is almost midnight. That explains why the list of unfinished and thus unpublished blog postings isn’t decreasing. I’m hoping to pound out two postings tonight before bed. Yesterday I received my [...]

Today I met with my unofficial conversation partner Vivian. We met outside the Sculpting in Time cafe. While I was waiting for her both Roberto and Emlyn happened along, they be able to provide some observations as well later. We had a good talk, I got her to help me with some Chinese phrases. One [...]

One interesting bit of jargon I’ve learned while in China is what it means to be a banana or an egg. A banana is yellow on the outside but white on the inside and is a term used by mainland Chinese to describe Chinese who grew up overseas. An egg is white on the outside [...]

Although this has been a completely wasted day. I’ve procrastinated and updated my blog, but I repeat myself. In my defence I am sick and I do have problems… But that is not the purpose of this post. While looking for blogs in China or about China I came across this site: Hanzi Smatters It [...]

…people come to your door and you have to give them money. Best not to think about it too much. Today’s visitor was the water lady again. I think she was here such a short time ago it wasn’t worth her time so she just waived her hand and left. I didn’t even get to [...]