This is the third day that I have woken up at 5:30 in the morning. This morning was much more pleasant though, since, unlike yesterday, I didn’t have mosquitoes buzzing in my ear and no one played basketball until after I had woken up. (Apparently the Chinese like their basketball…at ALL hours of the day) The mosquitoes hadn’t left the room this morning—I killed a big juicy one with my gargantuan roll of 卫生纸 aka…
Americans sometimes wonder how the obesity epidemic has gotten so out of hand. What are other countries doing right that we are getting so wrong? In two words: portion control. The week before I came to China, I travelled to DC and spent five days hanging out and going to restaurants with friends. It seemed that wherever I went and whoever I saw, getting food with them was so required it was assumed I would…
Today is flight day. Nearly fourteen hours of sky time and the longest I have gone without night in my lifetime (By travelling to China I altogether skip the evening hours). My four hour layover in Newark, New Jersey turned into a five and a half layover which was spent half in fitful sleep and the other half conversing with fellow students in the Beijing Center program. We are all worried about the placement test…