the last few days 几天以前

These are some pictures from last week...




a fish we ate soon after taking this picture.. delicious



My landlords daughter and her cousin took us to this street fair near the temple of heaven the first day of the new year.




at these fairs I am always extremely impressed with these
pinwheel bouquets


frenchies



An impressive new year's light display in Shanghai's Yuyuan

more here at my flickr

shanghai 上海

I have finally left the city of Beijing! Kristy, Ariel and I came back from Shanghai yesterday. We got there by plane and came back on the most comfortable Z train.
I learned how to say thank you in Shanghainese. It is sia-ya-nong! or 下牙农！呵呵：）

here are some pictures...


huge rat lanterns in a place called Yuyuan near old Shanghai street （上海老街）






one of many small drawings of insects at the shanghai art museum 上海美术馆


us 3


The Chinese use the peace sign when taking pictures, but they mean it as a 'V' for victory!

more soon../.

mmuah bbong

So, I've been teaching at a 7day English camp which is called 洋爸洋妈 (yang2ba4yang2ma1) which means 'foreign father, foreign mother'. Fred (洋爸), who's in the video and I(洋妈) are teaching these kids from 8am-6pm. We teach English, play games and improve our Chinese.

In this video, Yelly, who I am sure misspelled 'Kelly' when writing her name tag, is playing against Jenny in a game of Mmuah Bbong. In the very beginning of the video, Jenny adorably forgets what a 'letter' is, but remembers in an equally adorable way when another student screams out, "A! B! C!"



Enjoy!

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This is from a Beijing Olympic game show that I happened to catch where many people
in animal costumes were racing running on spinning platforms collecting cheese and running from real bulls.




This is a piece of my neighborhood.




my place has small windows but lots of light and high ceilings!



I'm teaching at a 7day English camp for the winter break.
These are the kids pretending to be dead flies. Soon, I will
put an extremely cute movie on you tube.




Ana, this is the print from my cock chair. Oh and I was wrong in my last post
when I said the other chair had a duck pattern. It has a crane pattern.


Thanks for all your comments on the last post. I'm really enjoying my new place. Mom, I want to buy a piece of furniture to put my mess of shoes in and my keys on. Thanks Scott, my Chinese refrigerator is a great 70s avocado green and it's one of my favorite pieces which came with this place.

Kristy is coming on Monday!! Kristy, have fun on the trip! I'll see you soon!!

my new place

I moved into a 平房(ping2fang2), which is a freestanding house within a 胡同(hu2tong4), an old Beijing neighborhood.
It's a few blocks south of 积水潭地铁站(Jishuitan subway stop). The structure where I live was recently renovated and sits within the structure of a very old building which they thankfully have not destroyed.
In a hutong (胡同) neighborhood most of the streets are too narrow for cars to fit, so it becomes this open market sort of neighborhood where they sell everything you need just a few steps away. I'm going to the main market today to buy a measuring tape, cute seat cushions and some produce which are all there.
My place, like you can see in my drawing is a studio. I'm having trouble deciding where things should go so I'm working on Paint to help me figure it out and in the process, missing Adobe Illustrator immensely!
Let me know what you think of my place.
I'll post real pictures soon.

saved by the bell and home movies

an episode that I remember occasionally and laugh.



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an entire episode of saved by the bell dubbed by two black guys. very strange.



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home movies


a link to the whole episode
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enjoy.

顾有财 my cat friend

I have adopted a cat. A friend of a friend moved and for some reason or another had to give up this kitty for an unsaid amount of time. He has a Chinese name 顾有财 (gu4you3cai2). 顾 is a last name and 有财 means 'has wealth' . It's supposedly hilarious. HA!

He needs an English name.
Here are some of the good ones:
-Percy Persington
-Hello!
-White-y

Please, help me name my cat friend!






I think I love him.