There's not much to report. We had a good trip to ZhengZhou, and even though I left my backpack with brand new laptop at Juliann's house (thankfully, not in the taxi cab), and even though our mattress is a block of wood, and even though we don't have a shower curtain and the shower stream feels like, as Justin put it, "tiny boiling hot icicles that hit your skin and then break", and even though we don't really know what to eat around here (but we did find a KFC), and even though we have a TV with only one English channel (and apparently China has had no new news for at least two weeks now... except, of course, the continuing updates on all the developments around the olympics), and even though people still laugh whenever I try to say anything in Mandarin.... we're managing alright.
I am getting settled in at ESLI in ZhengZhou. The students are pretty fun, though a bit more rowdy than I anticipated. I've only been observing so far... which is good, so I can get some thoughts together and formulate a teaching strategy before my actual first day teaching. Justin roams the streets and works on homework while I'm at the school.
Gotta say, though... it's difficult to go from lots of community to virtually none. We're already looking forward to being back in Kunming, if only for the people there.
Time for class.
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Naomi, i'll be talking with our friend about you and the new community (or lack of)...keep your chin up, i know your time in the new city will have gifts for you and Justin, too.
Community is very close to communication! :-D miss you.
Have you really only been gone for three weeks? It seems so much longer.
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