And I would walk 5000 miles

Franklin came all the way across the world to visit. Granted he found a NYU program in Hong Kong to legitimize the trip, but whatever he came! He came! France and now Taiwan, we’ve almost circled the globe. Meet me in Iceland? Morocco? Where next? We slammed straight into activities, with him getting here late [...]

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“I’m tiiiiiired” to be said in the most plaintive southern accent possible

I did something lame. I got out of the MRT station at City Hall with my heavy ass bag of books/camera/dinner/etc, after a long day of immigration office, sightseeing, work field trips, teaching second graders and an additional hour talking about how the hell Im supposed to teach kindergartners to read words that aren’t tangible [...]

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Foods and family

Le tired. I need a bit of veg time. Today was the family day big time. We went to get dumplings for lunch. Heavenly, up till the point where I had to eat about 3 more dumplings past my limit then try the congealed pigs blood at the bottom of the hot and sour soup…that [...]

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