Last night we had a Christmas party for some of our students at our apartment. It was a white elephant gift exchange, and it went pretty well! I ended up with a random poster with lots of Chinese words on it, and Erik go…

So it turns out there is a somewhat decent beach in Haikou...it just isn't the one close to our house. My students in a new class invited me out for a beach barbeque the other night, and we had a great time. A ton of oth…

Fun things that happened recently: Enunciating and repeating over and over again: "Budweiser....Budweiser..." I felt like a frog, you know, from the old commercials? And then I had to say "Sex on the beach....sex on th…

Well, our party was a success, I think, despite some problems. I was kind of frustrated with some of the stuff that was going on that night, but I think I'll feel better if I just put the things that went wrong out of my…