The Bridge hosted a pumpkin carving contest, which I was totally for. The winner would get a 200 rmb gift certificate that would hold me over for month, and as I’ve mentioned before, all American culture makes me happy at this point. Many of the people in my class didn’t get very excited, unfortunately, which [...]
October 19th, 2008 saw me complete the second marathon of my young long-distance running career. In some ways I was nervous about it because of the long summer of what seemed like less training than I had put in for Knoxville. The big city pollution and traffic is a terrible condition for outdoor running, but [...]
I ended up being lucky enough to get a call from a fried I met at my previous school named Joyce, who works for an “educational products” company for high schoolers. She recruited me to teach during a week-long camp targeted at kids that were interested in Model United Nations, which I thought was a pretty cool idea.
