In the grand tradition of leveraging synergistic complementarities, I have moved blogging operations to www.stillgoingnative.com, where I will be joined by fellow Fulbrighter Laura (who is posted in S. Africa). She is both more intelligent and better looking than myself.
This page will remain for purposes of shameless self promotion, once I figure out exactly how to do that.
I’ll be in absentia for the next 5 or so days - to celebrate a one week break from classes. Working on a number of projects, and taking lots of pictures. Leave messages.
On Rose / Ghost Street, depending on your map. I’m almost through posting pictures from Beijing. These were mostly exercises in oversaturation:
It seems that Barack Obama might be able to save the world. This is unexpected. Rambly personal story follows.
Background: after having failed to find a decent gym within walking distance, I’ve spent the past two months on a more holistic exercise regimen (involving lots of sprinting, and probably ineffectual-but-time-intensive stretches and pulls on gymnastics bars). There are lots of these places in Chinese cities, probably holdovers from state-directed morning exercises?
Such places also happen to filled with lots of middle-aged guys early in the morning. If you ever want to feel special, it’s simply a matter of walking out to such a place and demonstrating that you can speak some Chinese.
They say the funniest things.
