Dave’s Wagon

Having read the blogs of many a laowai, a common complaint from them is the sometimes-persistent harassment they receive on the street by Chinese looking for a chance to practice their English. With that in mind, I’ll probably sound crazy then when I say that this past Sunday I willingly walked into just such a […]

Chinese fire drill? Anyone?

It’s one week into our China stay and the toll on our group is one bed-ridden chaperone and one precautionary hospitalization of a student (who is doing quite fine now, by the way). Another of us has a persistent cough and almost everyone has had a little “stomach trouble” during the adjustment to Chinese food. […]

Sometimes it takes a “Chinese vs laowai (foreigner) beer competition” invite wedged under your door while you sleep to realize just how far you are from the dry campus of your home country.

I finally have Internet in my room after an application and setup process that was much more complicated than it should have been. Obviously my new connection is more “limited” than that back in the States, and for some reason my FTP client no longer seems to work. Still, I can upload photos directly through […]