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I didn’t fulfill my own wishes to be writing 2 posts a day, but for good reason. I was best man at the wedding of my greatest pal. Not only did I get a sweet hotel room, free meals, loads of time with the groom and bride’s families, I got to deliver a speech that make the Emancipation Proclamation look like a memo at Staple’s. That’s right, I hate memos and Staple’s.
On Sunday night, I arrived in New York with Galen, a friend I made in Wuhan that just happens to live and study in New York. The train ride, which I’ll blog at a later date (Thursday perhaps), brought us into Times Square to crowds, heat, and crazy-large advertisments. After stopping in Galen’s packed to the brim apartment, we took an hour ride out to Queens to meet my housing for the night, another Wuhanren named Lydia. Read the rest of this entry »
Flying home reminds me of the moment I saw Colette looking stress at my supremely late plane.
We planned our joint trip to become teachers in China, throughout the process realizing that while we hadn’t seen each other in almost 2 years, we’d see each other quite a lot. So, we planned our flights to meet in Minneapolis to have someone to talk to as we crossed the Pacific ocean into specifically China. However, my connecting flight from Philadelphia arrived in Metropolitan Minneapolis at the last minute buzzer for boarding. Everyone on my plane connecting with me (there were about 8 ) was frantically looking at their watches hoping that we’d hold our next flight from taking off. As we got out of the gate, there were 2 oversized golf carts ready to drive us to freedom (or the next gate).
Here in Wuhan, people work a lot. Definitely more than my 15 hours (maximum) a week. Everyday, from 12 to 2, my students go off to take naps, while the teachers also go off to take naps. In the beginning of my trip, I thought I could use this time to wisely set up my life. As you may remember from such banking pieces as this and this one, you can see that sometimes business is not running on full tilt. Read the rest of this entry »
August 3, 2008
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