I’m not sure what has spurred me to take this leap. It may have been all of the environmental classes that I’ve taken over the past couple of years, it could have been randomly stumbling upon chooseveg.com and watching their slaughterhouse videos, or it could be an intesified desire to save the world after having [...]
December 14, 2008
We didn’t really know where to start because we wanted to do so much, so we walked around for a little while before deciding to take the hot air balloon ride!!! The other two people that were passengers with us were from New Zealand.
Oh, my goodness! The view from the balloon [...]
December 11, 2008
We left for a nearly week-long trip. We left in the evening from the Beijing Train Station and took an overnight train to Xi’an. The Train Station was massive! I had one of the “I’m definitely in China” moments here. People everywhere!
December 12, 2008
We arrived at in Xi’an at about [...]
Today, the only “leave my room” activity of note was to cook dinner for my host lady. I made my specialty mashed sweet potato, steamed broccoli with cheese, and frying panned (?) boneless chicken breast.
Obviously, this involved going to the grocery store with my handy electronic dictionary because not only is the selection quite different, [...]
Mid-term exam! I did pretty good I think. Ran home to download awesome American pride songs for the picnic like “Put me in Coach”, “Proud to be an American”, “Born in the USA”, “America the Beautiful”, etc. Had a great time at the IES sponsored cookout with all the other American students, but decided not [...]
