| the old pond / frog jumps in / plop! – Matsuo |
The hot, sticky blue dot there is Chengdu. This summer it’s the city where I live. My time here, as well as the air pollution, has taken my breath away. But you know that already since I haven’t squeaked out an update yet. Well open your pores. Time to pump a trickle of life back into this…
There are times in life when you know that you’re in for a treat. When you sense that you’ve signed on for a worthwhile hiking trip in the mountains or a meaningful Tinder date. Most of the doubts you had have been rationalized away and you’re left with nothing but giddiness. You think of an…
This. Honestly. It brings me back to December 2006. It’s why I joined the Peace Corps. World of Warcraft had just come out with it’s first expansion pack: The Burning Crusade. The game allowed players to create an avatar character that they could use to travel throughout the untamed lands of Azeroth (lol I know)…
Alright, so here’s the thing. My mom wants me to post anecdotes from my life at least once a week – I think that’s do-able. At least depending on the Internet situation in China, which I hear is really amazingly quite amazing. In any case, you can expect to hear about my struggles at least…
Here to say thank you for following me. I joined the Peace Corps and am flying to Asia less than one month from today. It’s not free-bird I hate that turd economy stuff, either. Rather it’s me teaching English two years FO FREE. I am a twenty-four year old guy with virtually zero teaching experience and I’m…
Today was another day of travel! We took the ‘Dar Express’ bus, which was in all seriousness very comfortable and nice, unlike the one that I took to Babati 6 weeks ago. We stopped along the road at around 2:00PM for lunch. The place had a very airport-like quality to it, only with buses. It…