A bike ride in dowtown Chengdu set to awesome music: ???? by ?????(bu ren ba ya er). The lyrics are Mongolian, although there's a Mandarin version, too.
From Billy Bragg's show at Club Soda, in Montreal September 22, 2006. A version of "Waiting for the Great Leap Forward" with some of the lyrics tweaked to current events. It was Billy's last song in his set, before the encore.
It was the fortuitous conjunction of payday followed by a day off for my friend Pan Bo, so he took me and his new girlfriend to Luo Dai for the day. Hilarity ensued.
Chinese name: ??
Location: ?????
Drew, Megan, Steph and I went to a bath house in town that has a number of different seaweed baths and hot baths and cold baths and oil massages and foot massages, etc. This is us in our house-issued pyjamas eating the free midnight buffet. We're talking about the best way to cool down a glass of hot water.
Another original kids' song to use in my Saturday class. Actually, I took some of the words from their textbook, but as you'll see, that's not exactly the greatest literary crime ever perpetrated.
(For the greatest literary crime ever perpetrated, see "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper FForde. Yes, that's a recommendation.
I would not like them in a jeep,
I would not like them with a sheep.
I would not like them in Bishkek,
Vietnam, China or Quebec.
This is my friend Asel in the jeep. Reading my Russian-English dictionary so she can tell me something. Kyrgyzstan is bee-youtiful.
Nate just riffing about going off to Chengdu. He wasn't going, I was. But he's been there, and he wants to go back. Everyone does. Don't go to Sichuan when you're young - you'll never leave. So they say, and so it is, apparently.
Dinner was lovely on Christmas eve in my apartment with some friends. And stockings and hot chocolate and Christmas specials. And vegetarian chicken. Douglas is surprised at the low price I paid for the space heater you see working there in the corner (only on special occasions, of course).
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